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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[NOVEMBER, 
A. new booh:. 
THE GRAPE VINE. 
A NEW WORK. 
SMALL FRTJTT OuL-TTJRIST. 
By FREDERICK MOHR, 
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND iLEDICIXE. 
Translated from the German, and accompanied with 
Hints on the Propagation and General Treat- 
ment of American Varieties. 
By HORTICOLA. 
This work is mainly devoted to the most elementary 
matters. It explains the structure and mode of growth 
J of the vine so clearly that no intelligent person who reads 
it need he in doubt what to do with his vines. It has 
"been well translated, and a chapter on the propagation of 
American varieties has been substituted for the original 
one ou multiplying the European grape. As anatomy is 
the foundation of surgery, so is a knowledge of the struc- 
ture of the vine to the vine dresser. In both cases it is 
as important to know when and where to cut, and how. 
CONTENTS. 
Development and Structure of the 
Grape Vine. 
The Bfode ; The Branch ; Keasons 
for Pruning ; Pruning. 
Training on Trellises; Treatment 
in Summer ; Plantations. 
Tines Trained along the Garden 
Walk. 
Trellises on Walls; Tree Trellises. 
Yines Trained to Trellises; Bron- 
ner's Method. 
Time Kequired for Covering a 
Trellis. 
Manuring the "Vine ; Age of Vine- 
yard. 
The Rising Sap in the Vine ; The 
Grape Disease. 
Treatment of Vines Injured by 
Frost. 
Implements ; Proper Time to Per- 
form Work on the Vine. 
Constituents of the Vine and their 
Distribution. 
Propagation of the Vine : By lay- 
ers , By Cuttings ; By Graftlflg ; By Inarching ; By 
Seeds. 
Hybridization. 
American Varieties — General Man- 
agement ; Planting ; Pruning ; Pinching ; Covering 
in Fall. 
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By ANDREW S. FULLER. 
PRACTICAL HORTICULTURIST, RIDOKWOOD. BBKGES CO., K. J. 
A new work, and the only one devoted to Small Fruits. 
Special treatises of this kind have the advantage that the 
author can more thoroughly discuss his subject, and gc 
into greater detail, than in a work embracing both large 
and email fruits. The work covers the whole ground of 
Propagation, Culture, Varieties, Packing for Harket, etc. 
C0XTE>TS : LXTKODUCTIOn— I. BARBERRY — II. STRAW- 
BERRY— HI. Raspeerp-y— IV. Blackberry— V. Dwakt 
CHEERY— VI. CUKRANT— VII. GOOSEBERRY— VHI. COR- 
NELIAS Cherry— IS. Cranberry— X. Huckleberry— 
XI. SHErERDiA— XII. Preparation for Gathering 
Fruit. 
We predict that this work will bring Mr. Fuller many 
enemies, as he has given his opinion about varieties 
without reserve. On the other hand it will the more 
Btrongly endear him to all true lovers of horticulture, as 
these wish to have the merits of fruit given without refer- 
ence to the persons who introduce them. 
While very full on all the small fruits, the Currants and 
Raspberries have been more carefully elaborated than 
ever before, and in this important part of his hook, the 
author has had the invaluable counsel of Charles 
Downing. The chapter on gathering ami packing fruit 
is a valuable one, and in it are figured all the baskets 
and boxes now in common use. The book is very finely 
and thoroughly illustrated, and makes an admirable 
companion to his Grape Culturist. 
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DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AXD 
DRAINING- FOE EEALTE 
By GEO. E. "WARLNG, Jr., 
EKSISKER OF THE DKAISAGE 07 CEXTHAX PABK, NEWTOEK. 
Jl lustra, tecl. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
LAND TO BE DRAINED AND THE 
REASONS WHY.— Indications of the need of draining.— 
Sources of water.— Objections to too much water.— "Wet 
BUb-SOil. 
HOW DRAIN'S ACT AND HOW 
THEY AFFECT THE SOIL.— Characteristics of well laid 
tile drain. — Surface-water and rain water beneficial, 
springs and soakage water injurious. — Cracking of stiff 
Clays.— Evaporation and filtration.— Rain fall.— Evapor- 
ation. — Temperature. — Drooght. — Poro3ity cr mellow- 
ness. — Chemical action in the soil. 
HOW TO GO TO WORK TO LAY 
OUT A SYSTEM OF DRAFTS.— Amateur draining — 
Maps. — Levelling instruments. — Outlets and location of 
drains.— Main drains. — Spring water. — Fall. — Tiles. — 
Depth and distance apart. — Direction of laterals, — Col- 
lars.— Discharge of water from drains. 
HOW TO MAKE THE DRACSTS.— 
Tools.— Marking the lines. — "Water courses.— Outlet. — 
Silt Basins. — Opening the ditches. — Grading. — Tile laying. 
— Connections. — Covering thetile and filling in, — Collect- 
ing the water of springs.— Amending the map. 
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF DRAINS 
AND DRAINED LAND.— Removing obstructions.— Mis- 
take of substituting large tiles for small ones which have 
become obstructed.— Heavy lands should not be tram- 
pled while wet. 
WHAT DRAINING COSTS. 
Draining, expensive work.— Their permanence and last- 
ing effects. — Cheapness versus economy — Details of cost. 
— (1. Engineering and Superintendence— 2. Digging the 
ditches.— 3- Grading the bottoms. — I. Tileand tile laying. 
—5. Covering and filling.— G. Outlets and Silt Basins.) 
WILL IT PAT ? 
Increased crops required to pay cost of draining.— CCorn, 
"Wheat, Rye, Oats, Potatoes, Barley, Hay, Cotton, Tobac- 
co.)— Distances of profit.— Bene fit of draining ia facili- 
tating farm work. 
HOW TO MAKE DRAINING TttES. 
Materials.— Preparation of earths.— Moulding tile ma- 
chines. — Drying and rolling. — Burning. — Kilns. — General 
arrangement of a tilery. 
THE RECLAIMING OF SALT 
MA HSHES.— Extent of marshes on the Atlantic Coast.— 
The English Fens. — Harlacm Lake. — The exclusion of sea 
water. — Removal of the causes of inundation from the 
upland. — Removal or rain fall and water of filtration. — 
Embankments.— Muskrats, — Rivers and Creeks. — Outlet 
of drainage. 
MALARIAL DISEASES. 
Fever and Ague.— Neuralgia. — Vicinity of New York.— 
Dr. BartkMt ou Periodical Fever.— Dr. MetcalFs Report 
to U. S. Sanitary Commission.— La Roche on the effects 
of Malarial Fever.— Dr. Salisbury on the "Cause of Ma- 
larial Fevers."— English experience.— Reports to the 
British Parliament.— Cause of Malaria removed by 
draining. 
HOUSE AND TOWN DRAINAGE. 
Sewerage.— The use of pipes.— The new outfall sewers In 
London.— The use of steam pumps to secure outlets. — 
Utilization of sewage matters in ngricultnrc.— Effects of 
Imperfect house drainage on health. —Typhoid fever.— 
The Westminster fever in London.— Epidemic at the 
Maplewood Young Ladies Institute in Pittsfield, Mass.— 
Lambeth Square, London.— Back drainage, — Water sup- 
ply.— General Board of ncalth, (England). 
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