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it 13 possible, access to a spring, or ruDiiing water ? 

 It may be a question, too, wlietlier vre do not cut our 

 vines too mucli. I liave observed frequently in 

 England that a whole house was devoted to a single 

 vine, generally of the Blatk Hamburgh, and I think 

 they uniformly bore the finest grapes. • To carry a 

 single vine over a large grapery would, of course, re- 

 quire years of judicious trimming and management." 



The bunches and berries also have been known to 

 attam a very great size. In the south of France 

 instances are known of bunches attaining a weight 

 of eight or ten pounds ; travellers in Syria mention 

 bunches weighing IT lbs. ; and we all remember the 

 enormous clusters which the Jewish spies brought 

 back from the promised land. Even at the present 

 day the grapes of Damascus frequently weigh 25 

 pounds to the bunch. 



TV^ith all the vigor and fruitfulness evinced by 

 such instances it is no wonder that the culture of the 

 vine should prove profitable and certain. At the 

 meeting of the Fruit Growers' Society for western 

 :N'ew York, held in the city of Eochester in 1S59, 

 S. H. Ainsworth made some statements as to the 

 actual products of several vineyards, showing that 

 from $1000 to 81^00 had been realized from an acre 

 of Isabella grapes. Mr. Eush, of East Bloomfield, 

 had 100 vines on one-third of an acre, from which he 



