Training. 
GRAPE MANUAL. 
Diseases. 47 
ages and secures an abundance of such shoots. 
By this = i ok all new systems, so 
called, sh e proved, and ers 
grape cadiaae: may be able to guard ae 
receiving false impressions with reference to 
any mode which may fall under their observa- 
tion ; and this caution is the more necessary as 
young vines will bear good crops for a few 
tr 
cer periods, and replace it with younger 
wood from near the base of ye plant. 
tules can hardly be given for an operation 
which requires so much ied and such 
uaintance with the growth and bear- 
ing habits of the different varieties. 
If you desire to train your vines for arbors or 
s, set an extra strong young plant, in 
rich, well-prepared soil ; leave but one shoot to 
grow during the first summer, and if necessary 
_ even during the second, so that it may get very 
s g. Cut back to three eyes in fall, these will 
each throw outa strong shoot, which should ve 
to the arbor they are designed to cover, 
and allowed to grow unchecked. These three 
_€anes will be cut back in the fall following, to 
‘three buds each, which will give us three prin- 
cipal branches, each producing canes the third 
or fourth season ; of each of these branches, cut 
next fall one cane to two eyes, and the others 
to six or more buds, according to the strength 
of the vine, then gradually increase the num- 
ber of branches and cut back more severely 
those which fruited. In this manner a vine 
can be made in the course of time to cover a 
large space, produce a large quantity of fruit, 
and —. very old. 
ose who desire further information and 
us modes of runing and 
ing, or on the culture of @ vines in 
Wm. Saunders, U. 5. 
| Department of Agriculture. Report, 1866. 
DISEASES OF THE GRAPE-VINE. 
The vine, with “ its methine and longevity, is no — 
subject to n all other organic bodies, 
You ha with 
the necessity of clean “por apeed ace the soil,* of 
proper training, and of thinning the fruit. If you dis- 
these ar even the healthiest and most vig- 
orous varieties 
cultivation ; their causes are in fact unknown, except 
that they are produced by fungi—microscopic para- 
oe plants, i bear "brite etc., of which there- 
y differe kinds, d 
oak our ‘ckuae | is as ae vie deficient. 
ond our contro 
grape ean 
scientific description ‘and proper gece 
tion of the t 
Academy of Science of St. oe 1861, by Dr. 
so Am. Pactioauak 
Just before going to press we are fayored b 
Gro. ENGELMANN, tied the following article on this 
most important su! 
. THe DISEASES oF GRAPE-VINES 
are principally occasioned by animal or vogutuble 
parasites. I leave others, who are more roars 
With the subject, to treat of the former, and will m 
had such power over them; but they as well as the 
insect live — the pean having no other nourishment 
than the : you may eall it 
an iisecce ie parm rae 
More important for us in America are ‘the fungus — - 
diseases, } than the 
Phylloxera. Tt is said that in Europe —— dis 2 
e are aware of the fact that i in certain seaso! 
WwW 
 aesiernig tenmapea a ee aise tax winia led w: with grass and oS 
hoed and ated 
