60 The Cultivation of the Gi'ape Vine. 



case is reversed, the country is geometric, and the private 

 grounds rendered naturally irregular. The change, there- 

 fore, may be said to be one of necessity, that the contrast 

 might continue to administer to the pleasure of proprietors. 



Erratum. — In my last article, page 19, an important typographical error 

 escaped your notice. Instead of " An effect which is now produced by 

 natural plantations," read — An effect which is never produced by natural 

 plantations. 



Roxhury, Jan. 20th, 1853. 



Art. III. The Cultivation of the Grape Vine. By Wil- 

 liam Gore, Freeport, Me. 



Last autumn some very superb specimens of Isabella 

 grapes were given to us by Mr. C. Whiting, of Boston, who 

 received them from his relative Mr. W. Gore, of Freeport, 

 Me., the gentleman who raised so large and fine a crop of 

 Hovey's Seedling strawberry, noticed by us (XYIII, p. 450.) 

 The specimens were so much superior to those usually seen, 

 — indeed, superior to any we ever saw, — that we urged Mr. 

 Whiting to send us Mr. Gore's method of cultivation, believ- 

 ing that if it contained nothing particularly new, it could not 

 otherwise than prove interesting to many of our readers. Mr. 

 W. kindly complied with our request, and the following is 

 Mr. Gore's communication : — 



Brother Whiting, — I was pleased to hear from you that 

 my grapes compared favorably with others of the same kind 

 under t)ut-door culture ; but to give you an account of my 

 vines and manner of treatment, from autumn to autumn 

 again, I am sure would be tedious and commonplace ; for my 

 treatment is not new, nor very diiferent from what is called 

 " regular." 



For a fair description, it would be well to know that the 

 vine, on which those sample bunches were grown, has been 

 planted in its present place six years, and trimmed the usual 



