. Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines with wholesale and retail price-lists for 1864, describing and exhibiting the relative importance of all our valuable native vines. Viticulture United States; Grape industry United States; Climbing plants Catalogs. Plate No. 9. Pla produce, is the best. Propagating houses are not used because they pro- duce plants more cheaply, for they do not, but because they make bet- ter plants than can be made except by layering, when it is properly performed. Mr. Barry truly stated that one plant from a single eye, well produced by the aid of a house, is worth more t
. Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines with wholesale and retail price-lists for 1864, describing and exhibiting the relative importance of all our valuable native vines. Viticulture United States; Grape industry United States; Climbing plants Catalogs. Plate No. 9. Pla produce, is the best. Propagating houses are not used because they pro- duce plants more cheaply, for they do not, but because they make bet- ter plants than can be made except by layering, when it is properly performed. Mr. Barry truly stated that one plant from a single eye, well produced by the aid of a house, is worth more than six grown wholly in the open ground without such aid. I would not state that because plants are grown in houses they must be good, for the most worthless plants in countless thousands have been thus produced, and will continue to be while cheapness is accepted irrespective of quality. This matter has been fully discussed by Mr. Mead in an excellent lecture on the subject, which he has prepared in answer to the wants of this particular time, when it is c f great importance that the condi- tions of success in Tine-planting should be known. The condition? of success are well known and easily furnished, and the cultivation of the vine, when well managed, offers a more speedy The actual cost of vines of best selection has been well stated by Mr. Blead at not le^s than one dollar each. I may also say that they have not been produced by any person except myself at any price. I do not say that as lar^re vines have not been produced ; for by growing them in manure or beds of muck, very large size may be very cheaply obtained, but only one or two years of trial is necessary to show that such vines or trees are of little or no value. It has been tried with apples, pears, and other trees, and after a short apparent success, aban- doned as a disastrous failure. The full discussion of this subject would require a volume, but the well-ascertained facts thai are chiefly of in- terest, to p
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