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Grape Culture.


In the February number of Hoyey's Magazine
Of Horticulture, we find a communication from
successful grape culturist in Maine, Mr. VIM.
Gore, Of Freeport who has succeeded admirably
in the cultivation of Isabella grapes Mr. Hovey
pronounced some specimens of this variety, rails
ed by Mr. Gore, superior TO any that he ever
saw" By request of Mr. Hovey, Mr. Gore COM
municaes his method of eulIivating the grape
VINE on which the specimens were Produced
We extract the following particulars from the
Magazine in which it was published
e ''lhe vine on which the sample punches were
! grown has been planted in its present place six
| years, and trlmo,ed the usual way during the
growing season, and spur pruned in the fall.
| In the autumn of 1851, the vine had five canes
Cor branches) from fourteen to eighteen feet in
length; but one being somewhat injured by mice
the preceding winter, and the canes rather too
near together on the rells, cut it off, leaving
four canes, which, after covering the ground well
with stable manure and boards, were loosened
from the trellis, let down upon the boards, and
covered with spruce limbs for the winter In the
spring, the vines uncovered as early as the
season would admit--eary in April; but they
were left down until the last Of May, as they sui
Ter less from the cold winds in that position than
they would upon the irellis BESIDES it is supposed
N'AS
quenty that the leaves put forth more uniformly
After securing the vines upon the lattice, which is
twelve feet high and twenty-five feet long, at the
south end OF the house. and eighteen inches from
I'll commenced wedding it, leaving but one
shoot or iruting branch to each eye or joint, and
these were secured from time to time, as they
advanced to the trellIs.
The flowers did not make their appearance ill
the I'd of June, and the middle of July, the fruit
being formed took off all but two punches from
every strong shoot, and reduced others of weak
growth still more.
have been in the habit, before last season, of
shortening in the young fruit wood at the second
leaf or joint above the fruit, but the present sea-
son have let all grow excepting such as injured
the symmetry of the vine-lhey growing from
| FIVE to twelve feet before September, when they
were all shortened in about one quarter of their
! growth.
! The fruit was gathered on the goth of October,
| having been protected from the cold winds and
| frost one month by an awning of cotton colh.
l have piuned again this month (Noyember) as
usual, cutting all the fruit wood, or nearly ali, to
within one or two joints of the main canes leav-
ing the prolonged from eight to twelve, and
put the vines under cover rs in the previous year.
l should mention that l watered freely il the
first of the summer with soap suds, and syringe
often towards evening with rain water The
summer pacltirgS weddings, Tprunings are
buried by the roots OF the vine with good sprink-
ling of plaster, and by the first of April mulch we'll
about the vine"
Mr.. Hovey who is an experienced nurseryman
and hortcultorist, as every one knows, approves
of Mr.. Cores method of treatment or culture of
his vine, and sums it up as follows :-IHOrouGb
toeedlny of the young growth-protecting the zine
during winter-alloaOing free gro,oth all sum-
mer-Shortenlqg IN the new shoots only one fourth
their length-eory watering, and Swinging free
| ly during the season, and nu}cbing after August
when the fruit is rapidly swelling.