(1892) a 
Wine or for the table, in the vicinities of Marseilles and 
Malaga, will be found in the Catalogue. 
CULTIVATION OF GRAPES. 
Seil and Situation. 
The Grape delights in a deep 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 eastern 
aspect is found to render the fruit and foliage most liable to mil- 
dew, and a south-west exposure is found to be preferable to all 
ethers. 
Transplanting. . 
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 stable manure be incorporated with 
the earth that is filled in around them, and let them be watered as 
soon as they are planted. 
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 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 vines 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 shoot. Inthe spring many unnecessary shoots 
will be produced, which mustbe rubbed off, as they would exhaust 
the vine, and lessen the quantity and quality of the fruit; indeed, 
care should be taken 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. 
Training’. 
Lattice fences, five feet high, and ata distance of six feet from 
each other, answer extremely well for vines, which should be 
planted along them at the came of six feet asunder, On these 
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