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soils most congenial are such as are light and loose, and it 

 southern exposure is also deemed preferable in order to ad- 

 vance the maturity, but I have found it do well and ripen early 

 in very indifferent soils and unfavorable exposures, and I con- 

 sider it by no means difficult in regard to these points. 



1SCHIA. 



Thrice bearing vine. 

 Raisin des trois rtcoltes. 

 Pr^coce noir, ou des trois rtcoltes. 



insana, 



This peculiar variety of the vine, which is alluded to by 

 Virgil (Geor. II.) and also by Pliny (Hist. Nat.) appears to be 

 a native of the island of Chios, from which it was carried to 

 Calabria, and the island of Ischia, where it is known by the 

 title of "Uva di tre volte 1'anno," or, " Vine of three crops 

 a year." 



The fruit possesses a most agreeable flavour and much 

 sweetness, and has the different qualities deemed necessary for 

 making good wine. The vine is of very vigorous growth, so 

 much so, that long pruning is deemed preferable to cutting 

 close. When the vine is at the age for bearing, the first and 

 largest crop ripens in latitudes corresponding with New-York, 

 and where the vines have a southern exposure, from the 10th 

 to the 15th of August; the second crop from the 25th of Sep- 

 tember to the 5th October, and the third, which is a mere de- 

 monstration, from the 25th October to the 10th November, un- 

 less the growth of the vine should be stopped by frosts. 



Th'e two last crops are produced by an appropriate system of 

 pruning. About the 10th or 15th of June, just as the blos- 

 som has past and the fruit becomes formed, the ends of the 

 strongest shoots must be cut off two to three joints beyond the 

 last bunches this will cause new shoots immediately to spring 

 from the joints of the new wood that are left, which will un- 

 fold in due course a second crop, and as soon as the blossoms of 

 fhese secondary clusters have fallen, the operation of pruning off 



