Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . ork is done by burying, on one side of eachrow, in trenches about two or two and a half feet wide, generally dugat about one and a half feet from the row of vines (Fig. 8), the woodyfertilizers which we have mentioned, and which add singularly tothe forces of vegetation and fructification of the vine. Nevertheless,it is just to observe that the distance of the trenches from the vinerow depends upon the age of the vine; that is to say, the younger thevine, the nearer the fertili
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . ork is done by burying, on one side of eachrow, in trenches about two or two and a half feet wide, generally dugat about one and a half feet from the row of vines (Fig. 8), the woodyfertilizers which we have mentioned, and which add singularly tothe forces of vegetation and fructification of the vine. Nevertheless,it is just to observe that the distance of the trenches from the vinerow depends upon the age of the vine; that is to say, the younger thevine, the nearer the fertilizer should be to the row; on the contrary,the older the vine is, the farther it should be from it. Thus,when the distance between the rows is twenty feet, seven years afterthe vineyard is planted, and even sooner, according to the vigorof the vines, the fertilizing material is distributed at the bottom of atrench dug in the middle of the space that separates the rows. Thatis said to be the best method, because, it being necessary that thefertilizer should be brought within reach of the extremities of the FxG. MothoU of fertilizing viiiea, en chaintres, in ChiaSH.^. 24 THE CIIAINTKE SYSTEM OF roots, iuid the lattor being very long, the fertilizer should be buriedat some distance from the row. All the savants, however, are not of this opinion ; some pretend,on the contrary, that it is better to fertilize the foot of the vine. TheJournal <lc PAf/ricnlture, in 18()9, published an article on the subject,from which we extract the following : Among the divers methods of fertilizing vineyards, the most common is to deposit the fer-tilizer in n hollow made at the foot of each vine. It has been tried to put it in other places;for example, in the intervals between the vines in the rows, and sometimes in the wider spacesthat separate the rows, in vineyards where the plow is used. But whatever method may beused, they always end by coming back to fertilizing at the foot of the vine. I
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