Ibermann ©rape IRurseries, Ibcrmann. /HMssourt 
Small orders up to twenty-five are usually sent by mail and 
are always trimmed ready for planting by us to reduce them 
in weight. Plant them as if you plant a tree. The first fall or 
winter after planting the entire growth should again be cut 
off; the second you may leave one cane two to three feet long, 
and if it has made a very strong growth you may leave two 
canes or the one some longer; the third year you may leave 
two canes say foui* to five feet, and so on. In future years you 
should always remember that the stronger the growth the 
more and longer canes you should leave, and if the growth gets 
poorer you have to leave less and shorter canes. These canes 
should always be from the last summer’s growth and come 
out of as young wood as possible. If the soil should be entirely 
tr.o poor it may be necessary to manure them. Good stable 
manure is best. Dig hole between the vines and throw the 
manure in, again covering with ground. 
Summer Pruning — Pinch off one joint beyond the last 
bunch. It should be done before blooming to force them quick 
over blooming. This summer pruning, however, is not abso- 
lutely necessary, but the fall or winter pruning must be, and 
that is all the work you have on your vines; you can do this at 
any leisure hour some fine late fall or winter day. 
Warning — We have no agents. If an agent comes to you 
and tells you that we only have the common varieties, ask him 
if the variety he may brag has been tested by the State Experi- 
ment Station or the U. S. Pomologist. If he says that it is not. 
then no doubt it is a commoner variety than we have; but if he 
says that it has been tested, let him show up the Official Re- 
port of same and thus be saved from humbug. 
Nearly every state now has an Experiment Station, and if 
the state has not, we have the United States Pomologist at 
Washington, D. C. If it is given to eithei of them they test 
any fruit and report free of charge what it is. 
