>48 How lo raise Isabella Grapes. 



Art. VI. How to Raise Isabella Grapes. From the Maine 



Farmer. 



A MORE plain, practical and common sense article than the 

 following, we do not often meet with. Under the initials 

 of A. J., Jr., we recognize an old correspondent of our pages, 

 and we hope we give no offence to the author, whose mod- 

 esty will not allow him to write out his name in full, in 

 telling our readers they are indebted to Mr. A. Johnson, Jr., 

 of . Wiscasset, Me., for this excellent paper. A notice of this 

 same Isabella vine will be found in our present volume, (p. 

 81,) by Mr. Johnson, where he stated the immense quantity 

 of fruit ha gathered from it last year. And we are now glad 

 to give the method by which he was enabled to reap such a 

 rich harvest. 



Mr. Johnson's practice is another evidence of the value of 

 high feed, by which we are to understand, plenty of ma- 

 nure, or its equivalent, — not merely sulphur, ashes and lime, 

 — as has been strongly recommended, because sulphur has 

 been found in the wood and pulp, — but well decomposed 

 manure, and an abundance of soap suds, — the latter a valua- 

 able commodity in the culture of the grape, and always 

 within the means of every housekeeper. These, added to 

 a deeply trenched and prepared soil, have accomplished the 

 great result which Mr. Johnson now chronicles for the aid of 

 those who don't know how to have an abundance of ripe 

 grapes. — Ed. 



Dear Sir, — I had neither the vanity or courage to oifer my 

 grapes and pears for exhibition to the Pomological Society, 

 or to invite their criticism upon my horticultural pastime, — 

 for pastime it has surely been to me, and nothing else, the 

 past season, — to watch the growth of my bantlings along, 

 and to entertain my friends and visitors with short conversa- 

 tional dissertations upon horticultural science, as I under- 

 stand it. My friends listen with wonderful patience. My 

 breath, without the example, might be thrown away, and 



