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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1914 



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The Green Mountain Grape in 

 Maine 



PEOPLE living in other sections of this country 

 do not generally associate in their minds the 

 thought of grapes with Maine farms and gardens. 

 Nevertheless, while on a trip through the rural 

 districts of Central Maine last September, I ate, 

 direct from the vine, grapes as fine as I have ever 

 had even in the grape belts. 



The Maine-grown grapes were invariably of the 

 Green Mountain variety which, I was told, seldom 

 failed to fruit well and ripen its fruit, even in that 

 latitude above the 45th degree. Though it some- 

 times does not blossom until July first it will 

 mature its fruit by mid-September if favorably 

 located. It is of a white, or delicate light green 

 color, midway between the Delaware and the 

 Concord in size, and is very sweet and pleasant 

 flavored — of a much better quality than most of 

 the grapes found on the market. But it has a 

 tendency to shell-off when ripe, so will not serve 

 as a market grape. 



Although this Green Mountain grape is, seem- 

 ingly, about the best adapted to ripening its fruit 

 in northern latitudes, to have it produce up above 

 the forty-fifth degree requires some special care. 

 The necessity of this has resulted in the devising 

 of a vine-wintering and trellising scheme which I 

 found in frequent use. In the first place, in order 

 to have the grape ripen its fruit so far north, it is 

 found advisable — essential, almost — to have the 

 vine in some sheltered, sunny place, as on the south 

 or east side of a building; and invariably I found 

 grape vines planted on the south side of slab fences, 

 sheds, barns, and stone walls. A farmer who has 

 grown grapes as extensively as his number of out- 

 buildings will permit — 14 separate vines and 

 trellises, all told — told me this was how he achieved 

 success : 



"The first step is to plant the vine on the south, 

 east, or. in a pinch, west side of a building not in 

 the way of passersby. In the fall the vine is laid 

 flat on the ground, the tip ends of all vines being 

 farthest from the building. It is trimmed usually 

 into a fan shape, and several pieces of old boards 

 or sapling poles laid upon the vines to hold them in 

 place. 



Then, when the vine is all trimmed, a strip of 

 2-inch plank, three to four inches wide and long 

 enough to reach the entire spread of the vine at its 

 widest part (usually about three-fourths of its 

 distance from ground), is placed upon it. At each 

 crossing of a vine and the plank, they are tied to- 

 gether with a piece of manila cord or binding twine. 

 The vine goes into the winter that way, the plank 

 holding it down so that the first snows cover it 

 completely. I give no other protection; where 

 straw is put on the mice are apt to injure the vine 

 by eating the buds and gnawing off the bark from 

 the young growth." 



In the spring, when the buds have begun to swell 

 and danger from late frosts seems past, the whole 

 vine and trellis is raised on a forked pole and the 

 planking held against the side of the barn where it is 

 securely spiked. If some of the longest vines extend 

 far above the strip of plank they are caught in a 

 loop of leather whose two ends are fastened to the 

 barn by a shingle nail. Through July and August, 

 the dry season, the added moisture the vine gets 

 from the drip of the eaves is a great aid in keeping 

 the fruit growing, while the reflected heat of the 

 sun on the barn side is an aid in ripening the fruit 

 quickly after it once becomes grown. 



In the fall the vine is taken from the wall 

 by cutting the leathers and then the tie-cords, 

 and is trimmed and laid down as before. Then 

 the strip of planking is loosened from the barn 

 and, if long enough, used again on the vine and 

 the tying done as before. That completes the en- 

 tire process. 



It is my belief that the trellising scheme could 

 be improved by attaching an extra thickness of 

 plank at each end and midway of the trellis plank, 

 thus holding the bulk of the vine a little distance 

 away from the barn and eliminating the possi- 

 bility of the vines, by their retaining moisture, 

 causing the decay of the barn wall. 



New York. J. C. Westford. 





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