Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-06-01

CULTURE OF GRAfE VINES.
BY G. NJ. SUPPIGER.

In answer to an inquiry, by subscriber,
about the treatment and culture of grape
vines, am able TO give you very practical
BILE and useful information. The culture Of
grapes in this neighborhood is getting TO be
a product wei! worth farmer or gardeners
attention; and almost every one among the
German settlers has planted patch, more
or less-some as much as two, or even four
acres. got the method which shall re-
commend, out Of German book, which ex-
perience has shown is by far the best mode
of any tried in this prairie and in the vici
nifty of St. Louis, and is as follows:
Get your settings 1--WE bought them IN
Cincinnati, a, 20 cents per hundred, freight
and all) ready to be planted soon in the
spring. The ground ought to be spaded SO
that the black soil will come below the sur
face, and the clay on top. Soak the si,lings
in cold or lukewarm water about one day
before planting; put them six inches apart
in burrows three feet apart, one foot deep.
Let the last eye come out even with the sur
face of the ground. The sloping cut must
be two inches from the last eye, the eye up
and the cut doWnwards. If dry season
they will want a little watering, till they
begin to grow and make roots and leaves
Keep the ground loose and clean about them,
and mind not TO break off any leaves or
branches during the summer This is all
for the first year. In the fall cut all the top
off down TO two or three eyes, cutting off
two inches from those eyes, and not imme-
diately above them, or too close. What You
cut from the grape vines is the best manure
you can put 10 them, and therefore, ! al
ways throw it rig ht around the roofs and
hoe j. in in the spring and summer. These
two or three eyes will, if they are sound
and healthy, make two or three branches
the following summer. which are again treat
ed as the summer before. In the ensuing
lall they should be cut down TO four eyes.
forgot to mention that when one year
old they ought to be set out to their proper
paces-whese they are wanted in field
say in rows six feet apart each way-n a
garden, where they are raised on lattice
work, one vine in ten feet; and when they
ge, five to ten years old, one vine in twenty
is enough. Those that grow very large The
second summer ought to have poles six or
seven feet long, and be fastened on them.
The third spring Of Their age (the bearing
year in this country those four eyes will
grow out in four beautiful branches or arms
of the vine. When The young branches be-
gin to show themselves, select the two
branches with the most grapes on as 6ear-
ing branches-lhe two remaining ones as
acood branches, to make bearing branches
the following year. These two wood bran
ches are entirely let alone all the summer
but the bearing branches want particular at
ten,ion. | prefer lattice work to single poles
as it is better and easier attended to, anc
gives the vine more light, air, and room.
As have said, when the young branch.
es begin to show, break off the branch (bear
ing) two leaves above the last grape bunch
also break off the inferior branches as they