Special Manures for the Grape. 



BRIGHT S GRAPE FERTnJZER. 



* 



The grape deliglits, most of all, in a limestone soil. 

 The best wine grapes grown in Europe, have been pro- 

 duced on artificial terraces or borders, on the hill-side 

 ledges of limestone rocks, Lime is, indeed, required 

 in abundance by almost all fruit producing plants and 

 trees. A good method of using lime, where it is not 

 sufficiently abundant in the soil, is to apply twenty or 

 thirty bushels annually per acre, and it is more efl&cient 

 if this quantity be distributed in small portions of say 

 three to five bushels at a time, before rain, at intervals 

 of several weeks, throughout the year. Or, it may be 

 used upon sod and peat, when preparing composts, be- 

 fore the addition of stable manure, or other ammoniacal 

 substances. 



The next special manure required by the grape is 

 ammoniei, or nitrogenous matter. The grape is gener- 

 ally declared to be a gross feeder ; it is thought to re- 

 quire a large amount of rich manure. This idea is i^ 

 the main correct, but not to the extent that was former 

 supposed. The old plan of manuring grape borde 



6 (sr 



