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Wine or for the table, in the vicinities of Marseilles and 

 Malaga) will be found in the Catalogue. 



CULTIVATION OF CRAPES. 



Soil and Situation, 



The Grape delights in a det\i light soil, where the roots can 

 penetrate to a great depth with perfect facility. It flourishes in 

 gravelly soils, where the land is rich and not heavy, and will even 

 scarcely fail to grow vigorously in any land except a hard clay* 

 The ground should, however, be made perfectly mellow to the 

 depth of two feet, and if not naturally rich, should be made so with 

 old well rotted stable or cow-yard manure, the latter always pre- 

 ferable. The situation should have a southern aspect ; an eastewi 

 aspect is found to render the fruit and foliage most liable to mil- 

 d- w, and a south-west exposure is found to be preferable to all 

 others. 



Transplantiixg* 



lEither the spring or autumn answer for transplanting vines, but 

 the latter is the preferable season. In removing the vines it is 

 necessary to keep the roots moist from the time they are taken up 

 until replanted. Let the holes be dug eighteen inches deep, and 

 some well rotted cow-yard or stable manure be incorporated with 

 the earth that is filled in around them, and let them be watered as 

 ?oon as they are planted. 



Pruning, 



About the first week in November it will be necessary to prune 

 tlie vines; if they are quite young, the branches of the same sea- 

 son's growth should be trimmed down to about four buds, but, as 

 the vines advance in age and size, the number of buds to be left 

 may be increased, and when the vmes are quite strong, some of the 

 most vigorous shoots may be left from four to six feet in length; 

 ^observing always in pruning to proportion the number of buds left 

 to the strength of the shnot. In the spring many-unnecessary shoots 

 will be produced, which must be rubbed off, as they would exhaust 

 the vint*, and lessen the quantity and quality of the fruit; indeed, 

 care should be tuken to rub off all such buds as are unnecessary to 

 furnish bearing shoots for the ensuing* year, and to lop off such 

 lateral branches as would tend to draw the sustenance from the 

 main shoots. 



I\ai7iing, 



Lattice fences, five feet high, and at a distance of six feet from 

 each other, answer extremely well for vines, which should be. 

 planted along them at the distance of six feet asunder. On xho^r- 



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