128 APPENDIX- 



POSTSCEIPT. 



September 8, 1865. 



Sucli a season as the present lias never been erpe- 

 rienced since tlic invention of L'round vineries. A 

 fine vine here of the Trentham Black grape occupies 

 five seven-feet lengths, and is, of course, tliirty-five 

 feet long ; this is bearing fifty nice sized bunches of 

 grapes, now fully ripe. Another vine, the Black 

 Hamburgh, is also bearing a fine crop of sixty-three 

 medium-sized bunches, the grapes full-sized, finely 

 colored, and fast approaching to ripeness. , Tliere 

 seems to be a most agreeable and animating prospect 

 of these neat-looking and most useful structures oceu- 

 ]i}ang thousands of small gardens, and giving the 

 luxury of fine ripe grapes to many who are capable 

 of ajipreciating and enjoying them. 



The first idea of one vine only occupying two 

 seven-feet lengths is put ti> rest, for in a good soil the 

 ^ines are so vigorous that, although they may be 

 shortened so as to be confined to fourteen feet, there 

 is no reiison why one vine should imt extend tn one 

 hundred feet, adding annually one or two lengths as 

 required. I am inclined to liopo that I shall live to 

 sue my favorite Trentham Black reach that length. 



Sfpk<nh«r 21, ISrtS. 



I tind tt)-(lay that the grapes on bunches hanging 

 fnim the upright spurs nt'iuy Hlaek Hanihurgh vine, 

 just iiri(lrr tlie njiex of tlie roof of (Mio of my ground 

 vinerii'H, ami a Iritle over one fm>t trom the t;ri)und — 



