212 Grape-Culture. 



Prolific cannot be successfully grown ; in most instances also, Delaware, 

 Creveling, Norton's Virginia, and Clinton \ and, when the season is long 

 enough to permit them to ripen, the Catawba, lona, and Diana. I may 

 hereafter refer more at length to this subject in noticing varieties, and their 

 adaptation to particular localities. 



As to the question of protection by covering vines in winter, it is, of 

 course, attended with additional labor and expense ; but he who expects 

 to cultivate a vineyard successfully, and attain the most profitable results, 

 without a pretty large expenditure of both, will meet with disappointment. 

 The trouble attendant upon this practice is, however, often much exagger- 

 ated. If the vines are planted inclining in the direction toward which it 

 will afterward be most convenient to lay them down, and, when training 

 upon trellis, care is taken to tie them all upon the same side, it will be 

 comparatively easy to lay them upon the ground after pruning. Then a 

 few inches of earth thrown upon the canes will afford ample protection. 

 An intelligent and extensive vine-grower has assured me that he can pro- 

 tect a vineyard in this manner at an expense of from five to six dollars 

 per acre. I have also seen a statement by a large fruit-grower, who pro- 

 tected a part of his vineyard, and left another portion unprotected, that 

 the difference in favor of the protected vines was so great, that it would 

 have paid him at the rate of a hundred dollars per day for the additional 

 time required, if he had covered the whole. 



In some localities, many desirable varieties can be had in no other way ; 

 and when the question is, whether we shall do without grapes, or give 

 protection, I think the additional labor will be cheerfully incurred. Or, if 

 we can convince our vine-growers that it will "pay," there will be no longer 

 any serious obstacle in the way of its adoption. I will add, that, so far as 

 I have had an expression from those who have practised winter-protection, 

 it has received unanimous and decided approval, even when applied to 

 varieties usually considered perfectly hardy. George W. Campbell. 



Delaware, O. 



