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produce three bunches of j^rapes, the viae will make a splendid 

 yield. The main vine may be cut back, when it is necessary, but 

 if fruit be the object, only prune the laterals. If the vine wants 

 invig^orating, dig in ;i mi.uhl ivom the woods and swamps, with a 

 little good guano, or hen manure witli it, around the roots, not 

 merely at the base, but ten or tAventy feet from it. Train the 

 vine to trellis or pots before the buds begin to swell, otherwise 

 the buds may be rubbed otT. — Ihirl. 



The Vineyarils of (Jalifornia. — Mr. Buflum, in his speech in the 

 California Assembly, wherein he proposed to exempt California 

 wine from the provisions of the prohibitory liquor law, gave the 

 following interesting statistics concerning the culture of the vine 

 in that State :— 



" In Los Angelos County — the vineyard of California — there 

 are already under cultivation as many acres covered with vine as 

 there are in the whole of the great State of Ohio, the pioneer in 

 the wine manufacture of the United ^States. In Los Angelos, the 

 number of bearing vines amount to 800,000 ; the number of acres 

 under grape culture is 1,500 ; the quantity of wine which can be 

 made to the acre is 400 gallons ; the amount of capital invested 

 in the grape culture is $1,000,000, and the number of persons 

 engaged in the various branches of the business is 4,000. Thus, 

 these 1,500 acres only under grape culture can produce 600,000 

 gallons of wine annually, which, at two dollars per gallon, will 

 yield in this district the annual income of $1,200,000. If there are 

 in this State but 250,000 acres of land which can be brought 

 under grape culture, they would produce 100,000,000 gallons of 

 wine annually, which, at one dollar per gallon, Avould yield the 

 annual revenue of $100,000,000. 



The Pekin Plain Dealer says the Illinois Hedge Company have 

 set out two hundred miles of Osage Orange hedge in Tazewell 

 County. 



