62 ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS. 



W. G. WYMAN'S STATEMENT. 

 To the Committee on Orchards and Vineyards : 



Gentlemen: The "Plantation of Native Grapes," 

 which I offer for a premium, consists of forty-seven 

 vines, viz : twenty-nine Concord, six Diana, four Isa- 

 bella, three Seedling, two Catawba, one Rebecca, one 

 Hartford Prolific, one Delaware. They were set as 

 follows, viz : In the spring of 1857 one Concord, from 

 which all the Concord plants were obtained by layers 

 two Diana, two Catawba, three Isabella and three 

 Seedling; in 1858 two Concord; in 1859 two Diana, 

 three Concord and one Isabella; in 1860 eleven Con- 

 cord, two Diana, one Rebecca, one Hartford Prolific, 

 and in 1861 twelve Concord and one Delaware. — 

 Twenty-seven are in two rows twelve feet apart, on 

 the south side of a high tight board fence, in my 

 vegetable garden. The plants are twelve feet apart 

 in the rows. Between the rows an under-drain was 

 laid, varying from two and one-half to three and one- 

 half feet deep ; trenches were dug for the vines about 

 twenty inches to two feet deep and three feet 

 wide, and filled with brush at the bottom, (mostly old 

 wild grape vines,) covered with bones, waste leather, 

 old woolen clothes, turf and good soil ; the vines set 

 in the soil, without other manure, and subsequently 

 manured with ground bone, super-phosphate of lime or 

 ashes, each year until the present, most of them not 

 being manured at all this year, except as they get the 

 benefit of the manure in the garden across a border 

 of six feet. Twenty are in one row, ten to twelve 

 feet apart, on the west and north sides of my fruit 



