. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ection in winter. When this is done, they should be taken from the trellisbefore severe weather commences, and be laid upon the ground, fastened down with woodenpegs, and a layer of two or three inches of soil given them. Straw or fine boughs should beused instead of soil, where the earth is inclined to be too wet. Merely laying the vines uponthe ground is generally thought to be better than to permit them to remain upon the Fisher expr
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. ection in winter. When this is done, they should be taken from the trellisbefore severe weather commences, and be laid upon the ground, fastened down with woodenpegs, and a layer of two or three inches of soil given them. Straw or fine boughs should beused instead of soil, where the earth is inclined to be too wet. Merely laying the vines uponthe ground is generally thought to be better than to permit them to remain upon the Fisher expresses a different opinion, and says in this connection: Grape vines grown ina proper manner will ripen the new wood as thoroughly as white oak will ripen its grape vine is just as hardy as the white oak. If it is not ripened, it will winter-kill. Ifit is ripened, it wiU not. If you overload the vine, if you attempt to grow so many grapesthat you do not succeed in ripening the wood, it wiU winter-kill. I have not laid down avine for five or six years, and I have not had a vine killed in that time, except one or two FRUIT CULTURE. 797. THE BRIGHTON. (Drawn from fniit grown by Mr. H. E. Hooker, Rochester, N. T.) 798 THE AMERICAN FARMER. that mildewed. Hardy vines that are kept well pruned and otherwise well cared for maynot require winter protection, except in the very extreme limits of Northern culture; butvarieties that are somewhat tender for the latitude should, we think, be covered. Grapes in Winter, — With but little care some varieties of grapes possessing goodkeeping qualities may bo kept till midwinter, or even late in the spring. As it is such adehcious and healthful fruit, the luxury of having it through the winter will well repay thetrouble of properly storing it for this The Catawba, Diana, Isabella, Wilder,Vergennes, lona, Clinton, etc. — such grapes as have a thick skin and are rich in quality —are the best for this purpose. Pick the fruit w
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