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CULTIVATION OF GRAPES. _ 
Soil and Situation. es 
The Grape delights in a deep light soil, where the roots 
can penetrate to a great depth with perfect facility. It flour- 
ishes in gravelly soils, where the land isrich and not heavy, 
and will even scarcely fail to grow vigourously 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 preferable. The situation. 
~ should have a southern aspect; an eastern aspect is found to 
render the fruit and foliage most liable to mildew, and a south- 
west exposure is found te be preferable to all others. 
fLransplanting. : 
Either 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 sta- 
ble manure be incorporated with the earth that is filled in 
around them, and let them be watered as soon.as they are 
planted. « 3 
Pruning. 
About the first week in November it will be necessary to. . 
prune the vines; if they are quite young, the branches of the 
same season’s growth shouJd 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 vines are 
quite strong, some of the most vigourous 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 
shoot. In the spring many.unnecessary. shoots will be pro- 
duced, which must be rubbed off, as they would exhaustthe - 
vine, and lessen the quantity and quality of the fruit; indeed, 
care should be taken to rub off. ail such buds as are unneces- 
sary to furnish bearing shoots for the ensuing year, and to lop. 
off such lateral branches as would tend to draw the susten- 
ance from the main shoots. | 
