The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Band 34Hovey and Company, 1868 |
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Seite 106 - ... inactive. The crab is a native of both countries, and has adapted alike its habits to both ; the Siberian variety introduced into the climate of England, retains its habits, expands its leaves, and blossoms on the first approach of spring, and vegetates strongly in the same temperature in which the native crab scarcely shows signs of life ; and its fruit acquires a degree of maturity, even in the early part of an unfavourable season, which our native crab is rarely, or never seen to attain.
Seite 262 - ... in vine culture we are now more confident than ever that America can and will be a great wine-growing country. All that is necessary for us to rival the choicest products of other parts of the world, will ere long come with practice and experience. We have already several excellent varieties of the grape borne on American soil, and suited to it a soil extensive and varied enough for every range of quantity and quality. Who would discover a patch of ground capable of yielding a " Johannisberger,"...
Seite 261 - It is a common practice to go through the vines with a plough every fall and throw up a good ridge of earth against the stalks. The Hungarians have a more effectual way of guaranteeing against the cold of their rigorous winters, which is to lay the vines on the ground, cover them with straw, and on the straw throw the earth; without this, it is said, they could produce no wine at all. Our native grapes are generally hardy, and will live wherever their fruit will ripen; but occasionally there is a...
Seite 259 - France they trench to the same dcpih, but in many other parts this is impracticable, unnecessary, or injurious. Here, the distance between the vines is from eighteen inches to two feet, according to their size. We, however, are compelled, by the greater vigor of our vines, to place them five and six feet apart. In Burgundy, Champagne, and some other districts it is the practice to renew the vigor of the vines, by laying down the cane and rooting the plant in a new place, which quite breaks up the...
Seite 296 - WHERE the copse-wood is the greenest, Where the fountain glistens sheenest, Where the morning dew lies longest, There the lady fern grows strongest.
Seite 259 - ... the plough cannot be used. This is doubtless a good way to renew the strength of the plant, but it is objected to by high authority, on the assumption that the older the stalk is the better the wine will...
Seite 261 - The thorough covering employed in Hungary would secure it against such occasional risks, and also might render it possible to grow European vines in our country. By its means, too, we could, perhaps, make the Scuppernong live in our northern states, and obtain from it a sparkling wine, of foam and flavor unsurpassed.
Seite 259 - Beziers sometimes sells for the half of ten cents per gallon. In Burgundy there is a long hill, on whose dark red ferruginous limestone sides a wretched thin covering of earth lies, like the coat of a beggar, revealing, not hiding, the nakedness beneath. Here stand little starveling vines very slender and very low ; yet here is the celebrated...
Seite 260 - The size of wire preferred is number 16, and but two wires arc used. Our large vines would need three wires. They are stretched to strong posts set 20 feet apart, passing intermediately through holes of smaller posts or stakes. On the lower line, about 18 inches from the ground, the fruit-bearing wood is trained, while the upper line, about 18 inches above the other, supports the new wood. Many prefer to allow the fruit-bearing cane to do service two years, instead of one only, as is the practice...
Seite 258 - Chateau La Tour," is a bed of coarse gravel, among whose pebbles the eye can barely detect soil enough to support the lowest form of vegetable life. In the vicinity...