178 Southern Gardener's Practical Manual 



PLANTING THE VINEYARD 



After the cuttings have made one year's growth, they 

 will be ready to be transplanted into the vineyard. Open 

 deep farrows with the turn -plow ten feet apart, and 

 half -fill them with well -rotted manure. On this apply 

 acid phosphate at the rate of 600 pounds per acre and 

 kainit at the rate of 400 pounds per acre. Mix all of 

 this with the soil, and subsoil with a narrow plow run 

 as deeply as possible, running the last furrows on each 

 side to cover the fertilizer with soil. At intervals of 

 eight feet along these rows open holes eighteen inches 

 deep and two feet in diameter. In the bottom of each 

 of these holes place a half- peck of bones broken into 

 small pieces with an axe, and cover these with the 

 mixed soil and fertilizer, raising the furrow a little 

 higher in the center than around the sides. 



Prepare the vines by cutting back the roots to a 

 length of twelve inches and the cane to two joints or 

 eyes. Spread the roots uniformly, cover with three 

 inches of soil and pack firmly with the feet. If sets of 

 roots have put forth from two joints of the cutting, use 

 only those from the upper joint. Set the plant an inch 

 deeper than it stood in the nursery row, covering the 

 soil packed upon the roots with pulverized soil. 

 November is the best month for planting. Drive a stout 

 stake by each vine in the line of the row to mark the 

 plant, and, after the new shoots have grown a foot in 

 the spring, select the strongest and tie to the stake with 

 a soft string, removing all other shoots. Plant two rows 

 of some bunch variety of cow -peas between the rows of 



