GRAPE’MANUAL. 
CLIMATE, SOIL, AND ASPECTS. 
Whether the Grape-vine is a native of Asia, 
and has followed the footsteps of man from the 
shores of the Caspian Sea, and “ intertwined its 
tendrils with civilization and refinement in 
every age,” or whether the hundreds of varie- 
ties that now exist spring from different pri- 
modial forms or species, certain it is that, al- 
though the Grape-vine may be found in Europe 
from the Tropic of Cancer to the Baltic Sea, and 
in America from the Gulf to the Lakes, the vine 
is nevertheless peculiarly the growth of definite 
climatic conditions; so much so that even in its 
most adapted climate there are often seasons if 
not of actual failure, at least of an imperfect de- 
arrived at some definite conclusions respecting 
the ee influences affecting the 
Ist. ie matter how excellent the soil, if there 
is a less average than fifty-five degrees of tem- 
perature for the growing months of April, May 
and June, and a less average than sixty-five de- 
cess; and where the temperature averages sixty- 
five degrees for the former months and seventy- 
five degrees for the latter, other conditions be- 
ing equal, fruit of the greatest excellence can 
raised, and wine of the greatest body and 
finest excellence can be produced. 
2d. When there is an average rain fall of six 
Lippincott: Climatol of American 
deneen ie’ Geom of Plants —U. Ss. Agr. nr oy 
1862 and 1863.—Dr. J. Stayman: The Meteo’ 
ences affecting the Grape. 
f 
inches for the months of April, May and June, 
and an average of five inches for the months of 
July, August and September, other conditions _ 
favorable, we cannot succeed in raising grapes. 
When the average rainfall for the first months 
is not more than four inches, and the ave 
for the latter is not more than three inches, 
other conditions favorable, the hardy varieties 
can be cultivated with success. But where 
there is less average rainfall than five inches 
for April, May and June, and a less average 
than two inches in July, August and Septem- 
ber, all other conditions being favorable, fruit 
of the best quality can be raised, and wine of 
the greatest body and excellence can be made. 
The humidity of the atmosphere in some coun- 
tries, the dryness of the air in others, will, of 
course, materially change the proportion of 
i required for or injurious to the grape. 
Here, a clear sky and d sphere, 
temperature and very little rainfall for the latter 
three months, and a less change of temperature 
than 50 degrees in twenty-four hours, any time 
of the year, are the most favorable conditions 
for success. 
here are only a few countries where the 
grape will,"in favorable seasons, gro per- 
fection, and there is no country in the world 
where all kinds of grapes would succeed. Spe- 
cies found in the lower latitudes will not flour- 
ish if removed further north; the natives of 
higher latitudes will not endure the southern 
Virginia; the fox 
scarcely grow in the soa regions of Carolina 
and Georgia; a vine which produces delicious 
grapes in Missouri may become very inferior in 
= most favored localities of New Hampshire. — 
