SEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y, JULY 26 , 1873 . 
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la I temz oe Dominguez, after her residence 
then. «m during many years. In the year 
1965 r ibe dkposed of it by will to her son, Don 
Jose Lkmrsiiuicz, wlio has now conveyed it 
to M. Kiaitvan, Esq., of Canton, Ohio. Soon 
after 1 Wring made her will, she departed this 
life at tlibe ripe old age of 105 years, leaving 
800 lint *iJ descendants. 
We i junto from Hyatt’s Hand-Hook of 
Crape Culture :—“Santa Barbara Mam¬ 
moth. —We call this the Mammoth, 
not so n well on account of the size of its fruit 
as of its vote and of its prodigiously prolific 
He then proceeds to 
ured it himself. To-day the trunk of the 
vine, in the thickest place, measures four 
feet four inches in circumference, its branch 
os being supported by 58 trellises, having lor 
a number of years produced annually from 
live to six tons, or from 10,000 to 12,000 
pounds of grapes. It is estimated that during 
the last sixty years its total yield approxi¬ 
mates thi! enormous product of half a million 
pounds of grapes, which, at five cents per 
pound, would amount to twenty-five thou¬ 
sand dollars. 
Rev. Robert Bentley, in his Thanksgiv¬ 
ing sermon, delivered at the Union Thanks 
giving services held in the ganta Barbara 
Congregational church, November 30, 1871, 
thus refers to this vine:—“A nuncio from 
Romo, who visited this place not long since, 
and who in his observations and readings had 
made the subject of vines his specialty, as- 
•sertod that the great grape vine in this vicin¬ 
ity is as large again as the famous vine of 
I'Vutainebleau in France, larger than any 
found among the villas in the vicinity of 
Rome, and surpasses any of which ’i.iny 
gives record in his history and travels.” 
The laficho on which this vine stands Ls 
situated bn Montecito Creek, and is watered 
by a stream from the hot springs a mile dis¬ 
tant. The land and sea view is unsurpassed, 
the situation being equi distant from the 
Pacific, on the south, and the Santa Yuez 
Mountains, o* the north. Montecito soil is of 
the very richest of this vertile valley, and as 
you have said before, 
- r —-happy are they who 
5 / own land in the fa- 
voied vicinity of Mon- 
teeitc 
THE SANTA BARBARA GRAPE VINE 
boring fig tree nnuuully laden with tigs. 
These people truly have long had \ke privi¬ 
lege (now passed away) of sitting, as well as 
dancing, under their own vine and fig t/ee. 
According to Hyatt, before the death of 
the aged Dona this vine “was made t<ipro¬ 
duce more than any known grape vine iti all 
America, North or South, Between 1850 *,ud 
1800 it. had trailed over some 80 yards iV- 
cumleronce, with a trunk 18 inches In diam. 
eter, risiug dear 8 feet from the ground. 
“ Some years it has borne over 6,000 bundles 1 
of ripe and sound grapes, or close on to 8,000 
pounds, and become the wonder of every 
resident or sojourner in this part of Cali¬ 
fornia ; and, what is more, for tiie last thirty 
years it has principally maintained the old 
woman and her numerous family. 
“ l’rof. BilLIMAn, when he visited it last 
year, said he had never heard of such an im¬ 
mense grape vine in any other country, which 
is saying a great deal, as he has traveled 
much in the south of Europe.” 
Charles Loring Brace, in his work on 
California, refers to this vine, having meas- 
bearing properties, 
say:—“ Ohs* of the celebrities of Spanish Cali¬ 
fornia i. » .the immense and beautiful grape 
vine nm ir growing at the Montecito, two or 
three mi lies beiow Santa Barbara. The plan¬ 
ter of th e vine was Dona Marcellina Feliz 
HE Domi .VGl'EZ of the earliest expedition to 
Sonora, before 1780.” This now famous vine 
about si twenty years since was the riding 
whip of I im's Spanish lady, presented to her 
by her 1 ovor, which, after the ride, was 
planted b y her, and has now developed into 
that gram 1 ameuaento of love, the largest and 
most I’ami uts vine in the world. 
Beside t, be old vine is an offsxjring, only 18 
years old, Ifast approaching the dimensions 
of its paid it and fully as prolific. Under the 
genial brai aches of this youthful vine is a 
large danci Big floor, where, according to the 
custom of the Spaniards, on Sabbath days 
and Sabbatli evenings, are performed the 
VINEYA2.D NOTES 
Planting Grapes To¬ 
gether. — Novice asks : 
“Can I plant half a 
dozen kinds of graces 
on the same arbor, on 
the same side, at inter¬ 
vals of eight feet, 
without fear of ad¬ 
mixture ?” Yes. 
Thinning Grapes .— 
Will some of your 
readers tell me if they 
have ever practiced 
thinning the fruit on 
Concord vines where 
they have seemed 
overburdened with 
fruit ? Some of my 
vines seem in such 
condition, and I am 
not sure but it would 
be wise to thin the 
fruit. What do your 
experienced readers 
advise ?— n. 
Why not try the ex¬ 
periment in a small 
way and determine 
the matter for your¬ 
self ? 
Lime in the Vine¬ 
yard. — S. C. is in¬ 
formed that lime is an 
excellent application 
for a vineyard, in light 
soils especially. It may 
be applied as a top¬ 
dressing and cultivat¬ 
ed in lightly. 
