Choice of a Situation fir a Vineyard, 9 



some extent in the lands of Missouri that are devoted to the 

 vine. 



With all these facts before us, can we say with confidence 

 that this or that is essentially a grape-soil, to the exclusion of 

 other lands with very different characters and constituents ? 



This subject has been repeatedly brought before the mem- 

 bers of the Ohio Pomological Society, and of the Lake Shore 

 Grape Growers' Association, and the reader is referred to the 

 papers and discussions printed in their Reports. It would, 

 indeed, appear that any and all soils may prove to be adapted 

 to the culture of some variety af the grape.] 



Thus we see that the vine can give good results in 

 soils of various composition, but those soils are better 

 adapted to this cultivation if they contain a certain 

 quantity of pebbly stones, which appear to act favor- 

 ably on the fertility of the soil, by rendering it more 

 accessible to air and water, and assisting it to draw the 

 heat from the sun's rays. Therefore, care must be had 

 not to clear the soil of pebbles, if appropriated to vine- 

 culture, but only to remove such large stones as may 

 impede cultivation. 



[The radiating power of stones upon the surface of the 

 soil, has been suggested as a valuable means of aiding the ma- 

 turing of the grape, and has been applied to practice in New 

 England, where this material often abounds. The stones 

 were all taken out of the soil in its preparation, the vines 

 were well cultivated until they were established, and then a 

 complete covering of stones was replaced upon the surface. 

 These served the purpose of a mulch, and kept down the 

 weeds, but allowed the vines to grow and spread upon a trellis 

 near their surface. This was found to exercise a beneficial in- 

 fluence in the ripening of the fruit. 



It is a very common thing with vine-dressers to express 



