212 THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



witli a similar request for a statement, when they are 

 ready to ' report progress.' — Editoe of the Horticul- 

 turist." Vol. 3, p. 121. 



I have never had the rot attack a grape in the open 

 air. In the grapery with too much dampness, or in very 

 wet weather, it sometimes appears, and is easily checked 

 by fires, drying the air of the house. It shows itself first on 

 the White Frontignan, in small brown dots, very minute; 

 they soon spread and meet ; a break in the skin next 

 follows ; the berry soon rots, afi'ects its neighbor, and more 

 or less, or the whole of the bunch, is destroj'ed. Excess 

 of moisture at the root will- promote if not produce it. 

 If it is prevented by the application, as stated in the 

 communication above, it must be a different disease from 

 that I am acquainted with. Mr. Downing says, " sul- 

 phur and lime are large constituents of the volcanic soils 

 abroad, where the grape thrives best ;" but I have 

 always understood, that, if the weather was too wet, even 

 in those countries, they suffered from this evil, particu- 

 larly when the wet weather came when the fruit was 

 ripening or ripe. 



Indiana Cultivation. — Mr. John Davis, of Indiana, ten 

 miles from Louisville, Kentucky, in 1842, had a vine- 

 yard of seven acres, but, at that time, one and a half acres 

 only of it was in bearing. The vines were pljifited in 

 rowSjsix feet apart and three feet from each other in th© 

 rows. The editors of the Louisville papers say, that, in 

 September, the vines in bearing, presented the appear- 

 ance of almost " solid walls of fruit." 



Presuming that the information, from this vineyard, 



