We cannot too strongly advise everyone with a door-yard to grow even enough of 

 this luscious and healthful fruit for family use. 



The vine comes quickly into bearing, yielding fruit usually the second year after 

 planting ; requires but little space, and when properly trained is an ornament to the, 

 yard, garden or vineyard. 



The soil for the Grape should be dry ; when not naturally so, should be thoroughly 

 drained. It should be deeply worked and well manured, always bearing in mind that it 

 is an essential point to secure a warm, sunny exposure. 



The best grape vine trellis is probably the wire trellis. This is constructed by plant- 

 ing posts as far apart as you choose to have the length of }*our trellis, stretch the wires, 

 four in number, about eighteen inches apart, letting them pass through stakes at proper 

 distances from each other to support the wire. As the wires are contracted by the cold, 

 and are likely to break or sway the posts from their places, they should be loosened as 

 cold weather approaches. 



To secure the best results, annual and 

 careful pruning is essential. The follow- 

 ing is regarded as the best method : Com- 

 mencing with a good strong vine, such 

 as we furnish, permit it to grow the first 

 season without pruning. In November 

 or December following cut back the 

 growth, allowing ,but three or four buds 

 to remain The following spring allow 

 but two of the strongest buds to throw 

 out shoots. These in the fall will be 

 from seven to ten feet long, and should be cut back to within four or five feet of 

 the root. The next spring the vine should be fastened to the lower part of the trellis. 

 When growth commences, pinch the buds so that the shoots will be from ten to twelve 

 inches apart. As these grow train them perpendicularly to the second, third and fourth 

 bars of the trellis. No fruit should be allowed to set above the second bar of the trellis. 



BLACK. 



Champion— Bunch of medium size, berry large, very vigorous and productive. Desir- 

 able on account of its early ripening. Quality poor. 



Clinton— Date. Desirable for wine or preserving. Bunch and berry small ; very 

 healthy and hardy. Fruit should hang on the vine until after first frost, to be 

 thoroughby ripe. 



* Concord— This has been for many years the grape for the million. Bunch and berries 



large ; black, fair quality, medium early ; vine very healthy, hardy and productive. 

 The most extensively planted grape in America 



* Campbell's Barly— Its strong, hardy, vigorous growth; thick, heavy, perfectly 



healthy foliage ; very earlv ripening and abundant bearing of large and handsome 

 clusters of excellent quality, combined with the most remarkable keeping and 

 shipping qualities, form a combination unequalled by no other grape. Its period of 

 full maturity is from the middle to the last of August, according to the season, ripen- 

 ing with Moore's Early, but, unlike that variety, it has kept sound and perfect, both 



