Choice of Vines. 39 



The blue-grass must be cut by hand, and the first mowing 

 should be done in the end of May.] 



Vineyards recently Planted. A vineyard, from which 

 the old vines have recently been removed, may be im- 

 mediately replanted, after being sufficiently cultivated, 

 provided, at the same time, jt has been well manured, 

 so as to renew, in the lower strata of the soil, the nour- 

 ishment which the deep roots of the old vine had ex- 

 hausted. 



If this expense of enriching the soil can not be in- 

 curred, it will be well, for some years, to devote this 

 land to ordinary cultivation, by sowing it with forage 

 plants, such as sainfoin and clover. These plants will, 

 by degrees, renew the productiveness which the lower 

 strata of the soil has lost. 



[In this country, we have had little or no experience in 

 replanting a piece of ground that had been devoted to vine- 

 yard, and which had become exhausted, or which had failed 

 from neglect. But, upon general principles, such a course 

 would not be recommended, until after a course of culture 

 with farm crops, among which, clover should have a prom- 

 inent place. This is only carrying out the idea of rotation of 

 crops, to the vineyard, as to the other departments of agri- 

 culture.] 



IV. 

 CHOICE OF VINES. 



HPHE number of varieties of grapes cultivated for 



wine-making has gradually increased, by means of 



seedlings. Although the nomenclature of these varie- 



