He says the Catawba is susceptible of the same, as proven by him later in the season.

This very desirable object is obtained by summer pruning; that is, as soon as two or three bunches of fruit set on the young shoots, the end of these young shoots are clipped off*. The last bud on the shoot generally begins to grow, and soon two or three other bunches set, and so on until frost stops the progress of growth. The vines exhibited showed plainly these prunings.

I have no doubt he has ripe grapes earlier in this way than otherwise, and a regular succession of crops. There may be one drawback attending his mode of cultivation; that is, he might not have a sufficiency of young and vigorous wood for a second year's crop, and he may exhaust his vine prematurely.

The Isabellas here, after about two or three crops, generally mildew and rot very badly, unless they are pruned. If they are cultivated on sandy land without manure they do not rot. The Isabella does not rot in the same way that the Catawba does; in the latter the individual berries rot and drop off, thereby thinning themselves out; while the former rot in whole bunches, and very few are left after the fourth year.

The Scuppernong is the grape of grapes for our county, but I question very much whether the range of its success is very extensive. It does not bear very cold weather; that is already settled. Farther south it all grows to wood, and is not fruitful. Even at Quincy, Florida, a brother of mine informs me that a vine four or five years old had not borne a single berry, and he cut it up as a useless cumberer of his ground. The description given of it in the Horticulturist by my friend J. Van Buren, Esq., of Clarkesville, Georgia, is perfectly correct as far as it goes.

It originated in Scuppernong Creek, in Hyde County, N. C. Has none of the foxy aroma. The vine cannot be told by the most minute observer from the Muscadine. In nine cases out of ten when the seeds are planted they produce the Muscadine, or " Black Bullace," as it is called here. A few years ago there was a gentleman settled near Wilmington, N. C, who planted a vineyard. It was not long before he expressed an opinion that the Scuppernong grape could be educated to bear in bunches like other native and foreign grapes. In about two years he announced the fact, that by pruning in the fall directly after the fruit had ripened, this very desirable end would be attained. Since that his vineyard has gone down, and he has removed to parts unknown. The truth is, that those who have cultivated this grape with the most success never prune it at all in any season.

There are hundreds of acres now planted and being planted in North Carolina with this grape. All that is done is to make a horizontal frame-work for it to run upon. When the grapes ripen, a large cloth is either spread on the ground or hold by four corners, while one person simply jars the vine with the end of a stick, and the ripe grapes fall, but not in bunches, except occasionally two or three may be together.

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Grapes may bo grafted during winter, and laid away in sand just as for apple or pear. Use pieces of roots about four inches long; practice whip or tongue grafting as the mode; have two eyes to each cutting or graft, placing one very near the base of the graft when set, and the other so as to come even with the surface when planted out in spring. It is a good way to make sure of any new variety.

Grafting Grapes #1

The Old Mission Grape of California has been so extensively planted as to become of very little profit to the vineyard owners. But a sagacious individual at Oakland, Gal., has been buying up quite a number of these vineyards, and grafting the vines over to the White Muscat of Alexandria and the Flame Tokay varieties. With three men, he grafts 1,000 vines a day, and the success of the practice is said to be assured, few grafts failing to grow, and in the first year of bearing yielding one ton of grapes to the acre, the second year three tons, and after the third year a full crop regularly. They are considered worth $100 per ton.