. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, vines, shrubs, roses, plants, Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. C. L. WATROUS' DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 9 GRAPES. If the Northwest cannot have peaches and quinces, it can have grapes. The grape is at home in the West, and with our deep soils, bright sun and dry atmosphere, will attain its highest perfection. To grow vines success- fully, give them good dry soil; rolling ground, with a slope both South and North, for successi
. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, vines, shrubs, roses, plants, Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. C. L. WATROUS' DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 9 GRAPES. If the Northwest cannot have peaches and quinces, it can have grapes. The grape is at home in the West, and with our deep soils, bright sun and dry atmosphere, will attain its highest perfection. To grow vines success- fully, give them good dry soil; rolling ground, with a slope both South and North, for succession of fruit, is best. Put the earliest sorts on the South slope, late ones on the North. Plant eight feet apart and plant deeply, not less than eighteen inches, filling up the hole gradually, the first season. The old wood should be placed entirely below the surface; more vines fail from shallow planting than from all other causes. Just before winter, prune, lay down, cover with three or four inches of earth, and take up as late in spring as possible before budding, to escape late frosts. To learn how to prune, watch an experienced operator half an hour, at work. It will be \, better than volumes of reading. CONCORD—A very large and handsome grape, very hardy and productive ripens early, nearly black, sweet and good, the grape for the million. WORDEN—A seedling of the Concord. A handsome, early, black grape, which is well described as an early Concord. As healthy, vigorous and pro- ductive as its parent; with larger berry and longer bunches, oetter in quality, a week to ten days earlier and said to be hardier. Has been well tested in Iowa and seems to be the very best and most reliable early grape for the Northwest. No family vineyard should be without it. ^MOORE'S EARLY—Bunch medium heavy, large, round, black, with heavy bloom; good quality, ex- tremely hardy; ripens one week before Concord. Most extensively \/planted for early market. AGAWAM—Vine very vigorous and hea
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