174' THE CULTUBE OF THE GRAPE. 



for a year or two, before it is used." Page 219. Lon- 

 don, 1824. 



TJie following I found in Loudon's Magazine, vol. 17tb, 

 IDage 64:6 ; it is there credited to the Gardener's Chron- 

 icle, vol 1st, page 413 : — 



" Mr. Hayward's manure for grapes. I have tried a 

 great variety of compounds as food, and have found that 

 one quart of cider, or cider grounds, added to two gal- 

 lons of water, brings a grape vine to a more perfect pro- 

 lific state than anything else This mixture must be 

 supplied in such quantity as will saturate the earth like 

 water to the depth of the roots, and all over the surface 

 occupied by the roots. It must only be given once in 

 the year ; and, if repeated the second year, its good 

 ett'ects will be sustained for several years afterwards 

 without farther supplies." 



Hoare. — " The natural soil which is most congenial to 

 the growth of the vine, etc., is a rich, light, sandy loam, 

 not more than eighteen inches in depth, on a dry bot- 

 tom of gravel, stones, or rocks. 



" Of those manures that may be mixed with the soil 

 when the border is first made, the best are such as pos- 

 sess the two valuable qualities of afibrding to the roots 

 of the vine tJte MgJiest degree of nounsAm.ent, combined 

 with the ffreate,it jpennancnoy of duration. Of this de- 

 scription are bones, horns and hoofs of cattle, bone dust, 

 the entire carcasses of animals, cuttings of leather, 

 woolen rags, feathers, and hair. Bones, however, on ac- 

 count of their prolonged effect, are by far the most va- 

 luable manure that can be deposited in a vine border. 



" In the year 1826, several vines were planted. In 



