90 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



To a poor soil, in which there is a scanty supply of 

 the salts of lime and potash, and but little ammonia or 

 phosphoric acid, the Fertilizer may be applied at the rate 

 of one ton per acre, the first season, and say, six hun- 

 dred pounds the second and following seasons, though 

 three hundred pounds on a first rate soil will show a 

 marked and profitable effect. For single vines, or vines 

 on arbors, from a peck to a bushel may be applied in a 

 season, to each vine, or even two bushels may be used 

 on old vines which have had but little special manure 

 for many years, if it be widely spread over the surface 

 of the ground, say upon a space ten or fifteen feet square 

 and carefully worked into the top soil, in divided quan- 

 tities, at different seasons of the year, as before directed. 

 Indeed, if any one should wish to try the experiment, 

 upon a large old vine, we think that as much as four or 

 six bushels might be applied to a single old vine, of 

 large size, with safety, especially if mixed for two or 

 three weeks with one or two cart-loads of muck or wet 

 sod from an old meadow, and turned two or three times 

 before using it. The caustic ingredients of the Fertilizer 

 would thus be partially neutralized by the muck or sod, 

 and also absorbed, so that the action of its ingredients 

 would not be expended all at once, or too speedily upon 

 the vine. All large applications of Fertilizer for the 

 restoration of old vines, should of course be made late 

 in the fall, and in early spring, and not during the 

 growing season. 



For pot vines of one year old or less, only slight 



