Spring 1885 Descriptive Catalogue Of American Grape Vines PDF Download

Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue, Price List of American Grape Vines, Small Fruit Plants, Etc: Spring, 1896 We winter all our salable Grape Vines, Currants, Gooseberries and Blackberries in our large frost-proof stone cellars, which for convenience and capacity excel all others in our State used for such products. And here let us emphasize the fact that there is no use in leaving more than three buds upon a grape vine prepared for planting. Never mind what the dealer says. If he delivers you a grape plant with a long awe, claiming that it is a fruiting vine, and really believes that all vines should not be cut back to two or three buds at planting-time, he does not understand the business. These long-top vines are generally from localities where a good-sized grape plant cannot be grown in any reasonable time. Our two-year vines have been all transplanted, and by our method of planting and digging we get nearly every particle of the roots. But the long-cane fruiting vines are left in the ground two, three, or four years; the roots run all over the neighborhood, and cannot be dug (except by hand, generally costing more than the price of the vine) without sadly mutilating the roots, leaving only aged stubs, about as destitute of fibre as a billiard-ball, which the vendor offers with the offset of a long cane. Such vines cannot be given away to any intelligent vineyard ist or, at least, such is our experience. We fully believe that not one grape vine in twenty which is sold to amateurs produces a good crop of first quality fruit, because the top is not cut back sufficiently during the first two years of its life in the garden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.