. 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. THE QUALITY OF PLANTS AS AFFECTED BY AGE, ETC. 13 In Plates Nos. 5 to 9 may be seen five different grades of plants. A Delaware or Diana vine like that represented at No. 9, will, when four years old, if indulged in its productive disposition, produce from eight lo sixteen pounds of excellent grapes. At the same time No. 5 might be expected to p
. 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. THE QUALITY OF PLANTS AS AFFECTED BY AGE, ETC. 13 In Plates Nos. 5 to 9 may be seen five different grades of plants. A Delaware or Diana vine like that represented at No. 9, will, when four years old, if indulged in its productive disposition, produce from eight lo sixteen pounds of excellent grapes. At the same time No. 5 might be expected to produce one pound of very poor ones ; but to do that it will have required, during its two first seasons, a much greater nicety of attention in guarding and preserving it from drouth and injury. If we go on to the age of ten years, the disparity in produce will not be nearly as great as at four years, but it will not be less than twenty-five per cent in quantity, with probably an equal difference in the quality, as exhibited in size, beauty, and flavor. In pursuing the matter to the end of the tenth year, we shall find, that while one vine has produced Plate No. 11. the degree and kind of attention under which the one shown at No. 9 will thrive during the two first seasons, may not be sufficient to keep such as shown at No. 5 from dying when planted in vineyard or gar- den. The reader will have no difficulty in applying the same rule to the Intermediate grades. Another calculation is required for estimating the value of vines for the vineyard, based upon the same principles, and leading to similar results. It will be given in another publication called Vineyard Catalogue; and the subject will be found still more thoroughly treated in Landmarks, and also in the Manual of the Vine. The difference in the vineyard is equally great in favor of the best vines from single eyes, but doe3 not appear so striking when we take Wily a single vine, because the amount is small, the vines being
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