CULTIYATION OF THE TINE. 



SOIL AND LOCATION. 



The soil best adapted to the vine in this latitude, 

 is a dry warm loam which can be readily pulverized, 

 and not liable to bake, or become compact under 

 the influence of rain and sun, with subsoil of a 

 porous, gravelly or stony texture, that the roots 

 may easily penetrate to a good distance. A sandy 

 soil with rocks or gravel beneath, is preferred by 

 many, but where the subsoil is clayey and too 

 retentive of water, it should be taken out some feet 

 in depth, and replaced with surface mould, stones, 

 old lime, sand and the like. A sandy soil is said 



fine pure wine ; the gravelly and stony, a delicate 

 wine; rotten and broken rocks, a fumy and gener* 

 ous wine of superior quality." 



Where clay predominates, a plentiful admix- 

 ture of sand a little elevated, makes a good soil. 

 Old land is considered by vinegrowers preferable to 

 new land. A hilly or rolling surface is generally 

 better than a level, and elevated ground better than 

 the low. 



Arthur Young, the celebrated agricultural traveler, 

 says, "in France, immense tracts of land^ may 



