Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-22

the roots are planted Ave feet apart, aud
upon the hill sides the rows are made with
a space OF eight feet between aud the roots
four feet apart A new and most admira-
BILE plan, which has been successfully tried,
will hereafter be generally adopted. That
Is to plant the roots, after the rows are
made, in triangular forms, SO that when the
vines are growing, one will not shade an
other. The Agricultural reports contain a
great deal in regard to the cultivation of
the grape, but they recommend an entire
ly different training from that which has
been found to be the most successful 10
our soil, and the consequence is that those
elaborate reports are not in much favor
with our wine growers.
iu ordinary seasons an acre ofground will
produce from three to four hundred gal
Ions of wine and in good seasons from four
to six hundred, the profit arising from which
Is far more than can be realized from an
acre of ground otherwise occupied. The
wines raised here are % per cent heaviet,
and ought therefore to be worth 25 per
cent more, than the famous Cincinnati
wines.
seybold, schuhle & Co., had the largest
yield of wine this year, 4OsO gallons, $40
of which was Catawba and 2.IO of Isabella.
They also have new kind of grape called
the Virginia Seeding, from whichthey have
produced, about five gallons of wine which
is equal, if notsuperior, to any French Port
wine. This is cultivated wild grape
The above named persons have also vari-
ETY. of new wild grapes on trial and under
cultivation, and in order to produce bet
ter table and wine grape, they have sent to
Germany for many Of tue best kinds Of
seeds, which they intend to plant in the
fall so as to acclimate them ns they grow
into plants. They lave the fullest conf
dence in the wild grapes and the German
seed.
a great many curious facts are discover
ed in the cultivation of the grape. In some
instances fifty seeds from single bunch OF
grapes have produced as many difereu,
varieties, A seed from black grape is
just as apt to produce white grape as any
thing else. SeyboIds, schuhle!k Co., are
making some very extensive and uuheard
of experiments with wild grapes and ex-
pect to attain results which will greatly
astOnish the grape-grOWiug world.
Mr.. Soluble, of tue last named firm, has
improved wine press which is as far ahead
of the old fashioned press as railroads are
ahead OF stage coaches or teIegraphs
ahead of mails. The other day they
squeezed the juice out of thirty bushels of
grapes in eight minutes. Six men cannot
throw in sufficient number of grapes to
satisfy its Unsuitable nav.
Mr., G. W. Franziehm, has purchased the
most of the wine raised in this vicinity this
year, and has it stored in the great cellars
of his establishment on Market street. he
expects to End his chief market at home,
but as heretofore will doubtless sell great
deal abroad, in New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and other points. p-sal .
To sum up, our observations have satis-
fed US, that the wine business in this sec-
tion, has, in FIVE years time, became very
big thing-thut it is rapidly becoming a
bigger-thiug, and that those who have en-
gagged in it, are making money, in the pur-
suit of an interesting and pleasant occupa-
ton, ...i ....