Author: Hugo Preyer

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781332203673

Excerpt from Ten Years' Practical Experience in Grape and Small Fruit Culture There are a good many farmers and small land owners land who are of the opinion that a soil especially fit for grape growing is required from the commencement. This is erroneous. Every dryish soil that will grow good corn, or potatoes, is good enough. Vines are to be cultivated with success throughout the entire Indian corn-growing region, on the heaviest soils and in the lightest gravel, on the rocky hill-sides of New England and in the alluvial bottom lands of the West, from Maine to California. In every one of the five principal grape-growing regions of the Union, namely, the Ohio Valley (Cincinnati), Lake Shore (Lake Erie), Pleasant Valley (New York), Hermann (Missouri), and California regions, six years vine culture has not very seldom enhanced the value and price of ordinary farm land from $50 to $500 per acre, but it has never lessened its worthiness and market price. Vineyards are foremost in the class of improved lands, and their superiority, as far as rentability is concerned, cannot be doubted. In this respect, I would say, like the author of "My Vineyard at Lakeview," (New York, 1866, Orange Judd & Co.), to every one who is the owner of a farm, or even of a garden of the smallest dimensions: "Try a few vines; the task may lead to more successful results than you have any conception of." And why? There is no plant in existence like the grapevine to adapt itself so well to all sorts of localities, even to such as where fruit-trees, flowers, corn, potatoes, etc., find no foothold. The principles of its cultivation are plain and very easily practiced, and there is indeed no difficulty hidden under the surface of any vine-growing soil. A little care, a little labor, - much pleasure, and little disappointment. That's all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.