894 FRUIT CULTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



which sell readily at 10 cents per pound in France, Italy, Spain, and 

 even Morocco, the above being the lowest wholesale price ; and should 

 the trees stand 20 feet apart, at the rate of a hundred trees to the acre, 

 the yield per acre will be 1,200 pounds, of the value of $120 per acre. 

 If we take into consideration that the culture of almonds in a favorable 

 climate is carried on on lands which are often useless for other crops, 

 and the expenses of cultivation very small, often absolutely nil, it will 

 be seen that it is a most profitable culture. 



FELIX A. MATHEWS, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Tangier, April 2, 1884. 



GRAPE-VINE FERTILIZER/ 



REPORT BY COMMERCIAL AGENT MALMROS OF ST. ETIENNE. 

 [Republished from Consular Reports No. 117.] 



M. George Ville, the eminent professor of vegetable chemistry at the 

 Paris Museum of Natural History, writes as follows : 



During the last five years I have been devoting myself to the study of new formu- 

 las of chemical fertilizers. The one employed for the grape-vine, in 1889, at the experi- 

 mental vineyard of Vincennes, has yielded 20,000 kilograms of raisins per hectare, 



equal, say, to 180 hectoliters of wine. The receipe is as follows : 



Kilograms. 



Superphosphate of lime, at 15 per cent 400 



Carbonate of potash, refined, at 90 per cent 200 



Sulphate of lime 400 



Total 1,000 



The manner of employing this fertilizer is very simple. A little cup-shaped cavity 

 is made with the spade around each vine and into this cavity one pours the quantity of 

 fertilizer, which has been ascertained by dividing the 1,000 kilograms by the number 

 of vines on the hectare. A common water-tumbler may serve as a measure by sur- 

 rounding ths tumbler with a thread at the height of the dose required. After the 

 fertilizer has been applied, the hole is filled up with the earth removed in order to 

 make the hole. In case the vineyards are of very great extent, one may proceed in 

 a still simpler manner one spreads the fertilizer in front and behind the vines and 

 covers it with earth by plowing. This manure ought, as far as practicabll, to be 

 applied in autumn, in November and December, or in case this can not be done, in 

 January and February. 



The above recipe is applicable to every variety of soil on which vines are grown. 

 I have only experimented on French vines, but am convinced that the above fertil- 

 izer will have the same effect on American vines. To the above recipe I may add 

 that it is desirable to trim the vine stocks but little, and to let them remain tall, very 

 tall. This will have a tendency to avoid the attacks of the phylloxera, for it is a 

 fact well demonstrated to-day that vines on trellis- work have been free from suoh 

 attacks. 



The Amie>, ScientiQque, indorsing the recipe of Professor Ville, says 

 that, in view of the fact that in the entire south of France short-cut 



