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Should such trellised vines be planted in too fat 

 garden or hot-bed ground, they would grow very 

 thriftily m their earlier years ; and if this rapid growth 

 tends to loading them early with too much bearing 

 wood, such vines will soon become sickly, and almost 

 invariably their fruit becomes distasteful, and their 

 foliage assumes a disagreeable color. It is far better 

 to have less rich soil. 



There is a tendency ia the United States towards 

 trellis planting for all grapevines. For table grapes 

 this is all right, but we need never expect to make 

 good wine from them. TreUised vines bear a larger 

 crop, and the grapes are more palatable to the taste ; 

 but the wine made from them is insipid. I cannot, 

 perhaps, furnish a better illustration of what I mean, 

 than by reminding the reader of cider made out of na- 

 tural fruit, and compared with that made out of fine 

 table apples — ^the latter being far inferior. 



In Europe, they, therefore, plant upon trellises near 

 large cities certain peculiar varieties of special table 

 grapes, which bear large and early fruit. The " Chas- 

 selas," in French, or the German " Gutedel," (good and 

 noble,) ace preferred for this purpose. I imported of 

 them both slips and roots twice, but lost them each 

 time in the second or third winter. The Burgundy, 

 Muscatel, and Malvasier grape are also excellent table 

 grapes for trellises. In this country the Isabella ripens 



