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for table use. Soil, a reddish yellow loam, witli the usual 

 quaiitit}' of lime, and an appearance of iron — 7iot rich, hut 

 easily mellowed by cultivation — the same composition for four 

 or five feet deep. 



1844. Having failed to make clover and timothy take 

 root, on the slope of the hill below the little vineyard ; 

 plowed with the common and subsoil plow, two acres, 

 eighteen inches deep, and planted in Co.tawhas, and a few 

 IsabellaSy one year old roots, three feet by six in the rows. 



Gathered a few bunches of grapes from the small vine- 

 yard. 



1 845. Dissatisfied with subsoil planting, and in the winter 

 had an acre trenched two feet deep with the spade — the 

 "Irish plow" — and planted with cuttings, two to each 

 stick — only lost about ten per cent, by failing to strike root. 

 Gathered a good crop of grapes from the little vineyard, though 

 a bad year for the rot. 



1846. Trenched two acres more, two feet deep, and 

 planted in Catawba cuttings, with a few Cape and Isabella. 

 Gathered a good crop of grapes from the small vineyard, but 

 observed the roots of the vines to be too near the surface, 

 and the foliage to suffer from the hot sun. This was the re- 

 sult of shallow plantinr/. In autumn trenched the ground 

 two feet deep between the wide (six feet) rows. Lost, this 

 year, about twelve per cent, of the cuttings planted. 



1847. Trenched an acre more, and planted in cuttings — 

 lost only nine or ten per cent, of this planting. Gathered a 

 fair crop from the small, and a few bunches from the large 

 vineyard (first two acres) — and sold the grapes, after a liberal 

 supply to the family and neighbors, for near $100. 



The vines were not injured by the partial root pruning in 

 trenching between the rows in the small vineyard. 



In autumn and winter, trenched two feet deep between the 

 wide rows in the two acres subsoiled. 



