. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 672 GRAPE GRAPE development of the Chautauqua Grape zone is that some of the so-called poor laud has given vineyards as pro- ductive as any, —land that previously had been given over to sheep pasture, briers and mulleins. This land was poor in nitrogen, but no doubt had a fair supply of available potash and pho
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 672 GRAPE GRAPE development of the Chautauqua Grape zone is that some of the so-called poor laud has given vineyards as pro- ductive as any, —land that previously had been given over to sheep pasture, briers and mulleins. This land was poor in nitrogen, but no doubt had a fair supply of available potash and phosphoric acid, which Grapes most require. In preparing land for vineyard planting, it is necessary to lay great stress on the importance of first removing all trees, stumps and large rocks, for when the trellis is put up all tillage of the soil will be in a straight line and one way. A favorite way of disposing of boulders is to. bury them about twenty inches deeper than one thinks necessary, for they have a vexatious way of overcoming the power of gravitation and creeping out of their graves. The real reason for this apparent freak is the compacting of the soil in later years. If any open ditches should cross the line of the Grape rows, they should be supplied with tile and the ditch filled so as to make long "bouts" possible. Short rows and frequent turning should be avoided as much as possible. Turning at the end of a row is lost labor, and the time it occupies would enable a team to cultivate over a hundred feet straight ahead. The rows in nearly all the commercial vineyards are 9 feet apart, and the vines are planted 8 feet apart in the row. This makes COS plants per acre. If the land is sod, plow into narrow lands, so that the center of the dead-furrows are 9 feet apart, and plant in the bottom of the dead-furrow When the plow is set to cut a fur- row 8 to 9 inches deep, the dead-furrow will have about the required depth for planting. If the ground is stubble,
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