Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-09-12

d. u. BfuSh's Grapes.
EFs. PRAIRIE FARmrR FL send you
letter have Just received from III. l..
Brush, of Ottawa, which beg YOU to
publish. | am truly glad 10 know ,ha,
the Catawba and Isabella vines, al Qua
wa, are not killed; though was told that
all we're "dead to the ground, and many
killed root and branch, IN s56 or ,57. I
have forgotten which; aad Mr. Brush
does not say, whether any were killed or
no-before he adopted The plan of GOV.
ePug the vines in. Ii Aatamn: ours
were; we iosi over 20oEsss - viues. 2
years Old aud u ward, iG 90 and 81
every plant ol tn two year oIds Ii. .a.d
ou lght, root aud Top. Since 81 W
have nol had many TO kill, nor have los,
any to speak OF, by winier-kiAng, even
wren LETT without proteotion.
| have, however, lived long enough in
Illinois, to learn that though tender thing
occasionally staLd our winters for four
or i've, and sometimes ten years or more.
as is the case of the peach-thev are new
er safe with protection IN wiDter-rbe
flower buds more especially. And | am
by no means sorry for my misappfehen-
sion, and consequent misstatement, in re-
gard TO the Catawba and Isabellas at
Otlaway; for it has brought out two facts
OF no little importance to vine growers.
VIZ that half hardy vines should be bur-
red, to save the half of the plant-and
both tender and hardy sorts, ''to retard,
eight or ten days, the bursting buds"
lnd thus save the crop from late Spring
rosts My mistake, and friend Brush's
correction of 1t may do a heap OF good.
t people will only what we have writ
en-, JNo. KENNIcorr.
DEAR DocToR--It is not surprising
Yer the old Doctor of the Grove
1t Z -'ted our rlch valley, but one
10 has ", IS, should labor under a
le in six vea. "us as regards our
' misapprehensrC
SIS IN vine culture. q wine, in !
r. rticle on grapes an. say !
an p,airie Farmer. yol
?, of the tic vineyard, but alas.
e had a pro- tsabellas went The
Csla%0as " h,s aru E., vines during the sbi 5
coId uin,ers y This news u US ADJ
vineyards in this vicinit, [ >bnmsal'd thr
/, averaging from one TO two /. fo. M
;. mostly Catawba, will compairo
blv with the vin8-clad hills of Cinc,h be'
Every vina l. lnadrd with the fin u. Sl
clusters | ever saw; the Delawares, J
their dehcate fruit, are looking som
ndidly. | have in bearing fifteen va and
es Of hardy grapes, and, although wei
, have been 10 several winter engag- wal
us. thev have come out better than tbic
brave NV York Zouaves. Vines are
lld be buried every winter, whether the
1v or half hardy c,ld or mild winters ed
the object is not only to protect a and
,st the severest cold, bat 10 retard for on
II or ten days the bursting buds We A
* we have bit upon the right time for the
NO the vines some protect we'll, but b
over too early. Our experience has
4 The time from the first to the fifth VA
p. The blossoms thus kept back suf- nos
no injury from occasional frosts fre- 10
ntly as late as the 18th of May. My i'm,
QtODS WeFO tUl6u SOlu VI 8Apilt' SiN"
idly, and the tender blossoms expos mo
TO the frost the 9Th day of May, were nu,
Irly all destroyed. A few vines Of
nton htted ten days later are loaded tar
h fruit. Ii does not cost much to pro-
an acre of vines. shall increase
vineyard annually and PryFagate as
a. possible tie Delaware and Goa
d.. dis
The ueate-t arrang 1tnt for a vlae- ali
I'd is rows ave feet apart IN the rows. po
take for each vine, two or three wires DO
ough each row, attached with wlre tai
ple to each stake The vines, trained DO
the wires, fruit has better exposure su
Ie breaking out of latterals, and sub su
luent cultivation, is facilitated. so
Wheat, corn. and oats, more than an Gu
.rara Arples a fair crop. Peaches pc
NJ Grapes have never been equalled tn
Very truly yours, II. L" b. III