. The cultivation of American grape vines, and making of wine. Viticulture; Wine and wine making. 46 VINEYARD CULTURE. to be permanently trained. The rows were eight feet apart, and vines eight feet in the rows. Com- mon posts eight feet long were put two feet in the ground and eight feet apart, having a vine mid-way between the posts.—My trellis was composed of lath or strips of sawed boards, nailed to the posts^ the lower lath being one foot from the ground, and three above—the upper one being quite at the top of the posts. The extraordinary growth of the Isabella vines soon rendered them cr
. The cultivation of American grape vines, and making of wine. Viticulture; Wine and wine making. 46 VINEYARD CULTURE. to be permanently trained. The rows were eight feet apart, and vines eight feet in the rows. Com- mon posts eight feet long were put two feet in the ground and eight feet apart, having a vine mid-way between the posts.—My trellis was composed of lath or strips of sawed boards, nailed to the posts^ the lower lath being one foot from the ground, and three above—the upper one being quite at the top of the posts. The extraordinary growth of the Isabella vines soon rendered them crowded and tangled.—I trimmed the main branches along the lowest rail horizontally, and caused the branches about one foot apart to ascend vertically in a crook- ed or serpentine form to the top rail.—(See Fig. 6.) But I am diffident of giv- ing advice about training large and vigorous Isa- bella vines, in open rows -—they grow best and appear best trained on arched arbors eight or ten feet high. The weight of fruit and vine requires something tore5^ upon; and if tied to a trellis or railing, they will ascend above the railing and be thrashed about by the wind and broken. In March 1832,1 sold ten thousand cuttings ol the Isabella Grape, to William Underbill, of Croton Point, near Sing, Sing, New York, who now has a flourishing. 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 Spooner, Alden Jermain, 1810-1881. Brooklyn, A. Spooner & Co. , Printers
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