The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-02-01
Meeting or the Hooking valley Hotii-
cultural Society.
HoRTlcuLTURAL Rooms,
LANCASTER. Jan, 81, i66.

On motion, F. j. Boving was ap-
pointed Secretary pro tenn.
Mr.. White, from committee on Treas.
urer's Report, submitted report,
which on motion was received, ordered
TO be filed, and the committee was
thercupon discharged.
Proposals Of candidates for member
ship and balloting for same then took
place, resulting in the election of tho
following named gentlemen as mem
bers, viz:
j. N. Miller, H. A.. Gebelein, John
Reber, John Work, Samuel Anderson,
S. SwartE, E. N. Winters, Theo. Will
hanson.
There being no regular question up
for discussion, Mr.. Boving, on leave,
presented an article from the Cincin-
natl Gazette, on the subject Of q new
system of vine culture, which, on mo-
ton, was read by the Secretary, as fol-
lows:
E tenn OF Culture-Preyentntiy of Rot.
The almost universal failure of tho
grape crop, the past season, has led
many cultiyators, in this vicinity, to
abandon their vineyards, and some,
we learn, dig them up. To such as
are willing to make another trial, we
commend the following new mode of
culture. published in the Chicago
Times, by DR.. H. Schroeder, of Bloom
ington, Illinois. Having noticed that
whenever the Catawba vine has been
successful at all, the crops of fruit have
been very fine and large the first sea-
son, and not injured by rot; and that
even in localities where the rot has
recently prevailed, the new plantations
do well the first bearing season, the
Doctor made experiments which have
resulted in the following mode of culti-
vation: t.- ~
After preparing your land for the
vineyard, plant the same with good
strong layers or first rate cutting plants,
from 8 to II feet apart in square, in
the usual manner; when your vines
come into bearing the first big crop, say
the third or fourth year after planting,
take the strong cane of the bearing
vine, and close to the root of the vine,
make little ditch with the hoe or
spade, from four to six inches deep in
the row up to the center between your
two bearing vines; let this cane stick
about a foot ont of the ground, and af-
ter covering your ditch cut it off, as |
said one foot above the ground. This l
will call the first rererse. Let from this
grow three unchecked vines; two of
them are for fruiting next year, and
can be cut long to give good crop of
fruit. The third cane is for the second
reperSe.
Cut your first reverse loose in the
spring from the mother vine; let the
mother vine bear q good crop or two,
if you choose, as the case may be; then
chop it away to give room for the Sec
Ond or third reverse.
Go back now to the second reverse
Take the third cane of the first reverse,
lay it across the row up to the center
of the row as before described, four to
six inches deep, and one foot above the
ground cut it off. u,
Now you have, instead of one, two
rows Of vines. Let again three canes
grow off the second reverse (two fruit
ing and one for the third reverse.) The
third reverse is made by layering the
cane of the second reverse in the new
row up to the center of the new row,
and treating it the same way as the
other reverses were treated. The fourth
reverse is made by taking cane Gin the
second year after fruiting) from the
first reverse, and after chopping the
original mother vine out, TO become the
mothers place, one third of tho vines,
or, as the case may be, one-fourth are
removed every year by chopping out,
and thus making room for other re-
verses, and SO on till "tho day Of judg-
ment."
You will have this way, by little Ia
Dor and without any doctoring, always
a new and vigorous vineyard, free from
disease, and paying well for your labor,
superior fruit and wine.
Mr.. Snider expressed his disapproval
Of the plan, as being opposed to estab-
lished theory and the views of the best
authorities, which recommend a mode
of culture giving the largest possible
root to the plant. This could not be
obtained by tho new mode.
Mr.. Boving thought tho new system
worthy of experiment, and mentioned
instances of good crops from layers.
Mr.. Fettors argued against the plan
thought that disease in an old vine
would bc apt to show itself in layers
thcretrom, and that the remedy for
mldew laid in different direction
advocated the use of quick.lime to de-
stroy the seeds of mildcw fungi.
Mr.. Snidor was of opinion the Diff
Guilty was generally attributable to too
close planting, and advocated a much
larger space for vines than is usually
given. .s...
DR.. Lewis cited authorities on the
subject of mildOw, showing it to be the
offspring of principle in the atmos-
phere entitled .o1one-producng colds,
catarrhs, &C., in the human system, as
well as blight in certain fruits and
plants, but affecting them only for tho
particular season in which it prevails,
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