. 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. 12. feet health, with increased ability for next season's crop. The fruit will be of such quality and beauty as will bring the best price and build the reputation of the producer. A vine rating as No. 4, if well pro- duced, may, at the same time, begin to bear, but not sufficiently to yield any thing of value. The grapes from the forme
. 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. 12. feet health, with increased ability for next season's crop. The fruit will be of such quality and beauty as will bring the best price and build the reputation of the producer. A vine rating as No. 4, if well pro- duced, may, at the same time, begin to bear, but not sufficiently to yield any thing of value. The grapes from the former, if used for wine, will be worth fifteen cents per pound, making sixty cents for each vine. At four years old, the vine will be able to bear more, but extreme prudence for the health and longevity of the vineyard may restrict the crop to that amount. The sum earned by these two years will be one dollar and twenty cents. The crop at two years old, which has not been named, maybe reckoned sufficient to pay for the cost of cultivation up to the time of gathering the crop of the fourth year. At four years old, one of the class, No. 3 or 4, such as represented in Plate No. 9, may be expected to yield a profitable crop half equaling in value that of the extra at three years, or approaching in value that of the extra at two years. But to do this, much more careful attention, both in the preparation and planting, and also in tillage, will be required then by the " ; At five years the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original C. W. Grant (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Iona, N. Y. : C. W. Grant
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