1868 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
A NEW BOOK. 
THE GRAPE VINE. 
Translated from the German, and accompanied with 
Hints on the Propagation and General Treat¬ 
ment of American Varieties. 
Br HORTICOLA. 
This work is mainly devoted to the most elementary 
matters. It explains the structure and mode of growth 
of the vine so clearly that no intelligent person who reads 
it need be 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 on 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. 
CONTEJSTTS. 
Development and Structure of the 
Grape Vine. 
The Mode; The Dr&nch ; Reasons 
for Pruning; Pruning. 
Training on Trellises; Treatment 
in Summer; Plantations. 
Vines Trained along the Garden 
Walk. 
Trellises on Walls; Tree Trellises. 
Vanes Trained to Trellises; Bron- 
ner’s Method. 
Time Required for Covering a 
Trellis. 
Manuring the Vine ; Age of Vine¬ 
yard. 
The Rasing Sap in the Vine; The 
Grape Disease. 
Treatment of Vines Xiiinred l»v 
Frost. 
Implements; Proper Time to Per¬ 
form Work on the Vine. 
Constituents of the Vine and their 
Distribution. 
Propagation of the Vine: By Pay¬ 
ers . By Cuttings ; By Grafting ; By Inarchin^ > Bv 
Seeds. ' y 
Hybridization. 
American Varieties—General Man¬ 
agement ; Planting; Pruning; Pinching; Covering 
in Fall. 
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A NEW WORK. 
SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST. 
\ 
By ANDREW S. FULLER, 
PBAOTIOAL HORTICULTURIST, RIDGEWOOD, BERGEN CO., N. J. 
A new work, and the only one devoted to Small Fruits. 
Special treatises of this kind have the advantage that the 
author cau more thoroughly discuss his subject, and gc 
into greater detail, than in a work embracing both large 
and small fruits. The work covers the whole ground of 
Propagation, Culture, Varieties, Packing for Market, etc. 
Contents: Introduction— I. Barberry— H. Straw¬ 
berry— III. Raspberry— IV. Blackberry— V. Dwarf 
Cherry— VI. Currant—' VTL Gooseberry—' Vin. Cor¬ 
nelian Cherry— IX. Cranberry— X. Huckleberry— 
XI. Sheperdia— XH. Preparation tor 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 Vill the more 
strongly endear him to all true lovers of horticulture, ns 
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 book, the 
author has had tho invaluable counsel of Charles 
Downing. The chapter on gathering and 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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39 
DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
AND 
DRAINING- FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jr., 
INSmSER OF THE DRAINAGE OF CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK. 
11 Ills ti*a, te d. 
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 
sub-soil. 
HOW DRAINS 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.—Drought.—Porosity or mellow¬ 
ness.—Chemical action in the soil. 
HOW TO GO TO WORK TO LAY 
OUT A SYSTEM OF DRAINS.—Amateur draining.— 
Maps.—Levelling instruments.—Outlets and location of 
drains.—Main drainsr— Spring water. — Fall. — Tiles.— 
Deptli and distance apart—Direction of laterals.—Col¬ 
lars.—Discharge of water from drains. 
HOW TO MAKE THE DRAINS.— 
Tools.—Marking the lines.—Water courses.—Outlet.— 
Silt Basins.—Opening the ditches.—Grading.—Tile laying. 
—Connections.—Covering the tile 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 havo 
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 tha 
ditches.—3. Grading the bottoms.—1. Tile and tile laying. 
—5. Covering and filling.—6. Outlets and Silt Basins.) 
WILL IT PAY ? 
Increased crops required to pay costof draining.—(Corn, 
Wheat, Rye, Oats, Potatoes, Barley, Hay, Cotton, Tobac¬ 
co.)—Instances of profit.—Benefit of draining in facili¬ 
tating farm work. 
IIOW TO MAKE DRAINING TILES. 
Materials.—Preparation of earths.—Moulding tile ma¬ 
chines.—Drying and rolling.—Burning.—Kilns.—General 
arrangement of a tilery. 
THE RECLAIMING OF SALT 
MAKSHES.— Extent of marshes on the Atlantic Coast.— 
The English Fens.—Harlaent Lake.—The exclusion of sea 
water.—Removal of the causes of inundation from tho 
upland—Removal of 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. Bartlett on 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.—Causo of Malaria removed by 
draining. 
HOUSE AND TOWN DRAINAGE. 
Sewerage.—The use of pipes.—Tho new outfall sewers in 
London.—The use of steam pumps to securo outlets._ 
Utilization of sewage matters iu agriculture.—Effects of 
imperfect house drainage on health.—Typhoid fever.— 
The Westminster fever In London.—Epidemic at tho 
Maplewood Young Ladies Institute in Pittsfield, Mass.— 
Lambeth Square, London.—Back drainage,—Water sup¬ 
ply—General Board of Health, (England). 
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