Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — Grape Growers’ Maxims. [ARTICLE]

Grape Growers’ Maxims.

1. Prepare the ground in fall; plant in spiing. 2. Give the vine plenty of manure, old aud well decomposed, for fresh manure excites the growth, but does not mature it. 3. Luxuriant growth does not insure fruit. 4. Dig deep and plant shallow. 5. Young vines produce beautiful fruit, but old vines produce the richest. G. Prune in autumn to insure growth, but in spring to insure fruitfulness. 7. Plant your vines before you put up trellises. 8. Vines, like old soldiers, should have good arms. 9. Prune spurs to one developed bud, for the nearer the old wood the higher flavored the fruit. 10. Those who prune long must soon climb. ]l. Vine leaves love the sun; the fruit the shade. 12. Every leaf has a bud at the base, and either a branch or a tendril opposite it. 13. A tendril is an abortive fruit bunch —a bunch of fruit a productive tendril. '• -u,