| Andrew Jackson Downing - 1845 - 634 páginas
...on a heavy soil, though our native varieties grow and bear well on any strong land, but the essence of all that can be said in grape culture respecting soil is that it be dry and light, deep and rich. Frequent top-dressings of well rotted manure should be applied to vines in open borders, and this should... | |
| John J. Thomas - 1855 - 392 páginas
...expanded, the scions having been preserved iii a cool cellar for this purpose. SOIL. " The essence," says Downing, " of all that can be said in grape culture...mould or muck, with a portion of ashes intermixed, is one of the very best. PRUNING AND TRAINING. A well pruned vine will not only produce earlier fruit,... | |
| Richard Gay Pardee - 1864 - 178 páginas
...soil or gravelly loam is best for the grape, and should be well drained and warm. " The essence," says Downing, "of all that can be said in grape culture respecting soil, is that it be dry, light, deep, rich." It is somewhat difficult in wet clay lands to raise good grapes, unless the vine... | |
| Andrew Jackson Downing - 1859 - 794 páginas
...though our native varieties grow and bear well on any strong land, but the essence of all that can bo said in grape culture respecting soil is that it be dry and light, deep and rich. Frequent top-dressings of well rotted manure should be applied to vines in open borders, and this should... | |
| Richard Gay Pardee - 1860 - 172 páginas
...soil or gravelly loam is best for the grape, and should be well drained and warm. " The essence," says Downing, "of all that can be said in grape culture respecting soil, is that it be dry, light, deep, rich." It is somewhat difficult in wet clay lands to raise good grapes, unless the vine... | |
| Thomas Hart Hyatt - 1867 - 300 páginas
...so thoroughly versed in all pertaining to fruit culture, sums up Iris opinion by saying: The essence of all that can be said in grape culture respecting...soil is, that it be dry and light, deep and rich. This used to be our opinion ; and, acting upon it, while cultivating an old vineyard in the neighborhood... | |
| John Jacob Thomas - 1873 - 346 páginas
...expanded, the scions having been preserved in a cool cellar for this purpose. SOIL. " The essence," says Downing, " of all that can be said in grape culture...mould or muck, with a portion of ashes intermixed , is one of the very best. PRUNING AND TRAINING. A well pruned vine will not only produce earlier fruit,... | |
| State Pomological Society of Michigan - 1875 - 592 páginas
...varieties grow and bear well on any strong land ; but the essence of all that can be said in grape-culture respecting soil, is that it be dry and light, deep and rich. Frequent topdressing of well rotted manures should be applied to vines in open borders, and this should... | |
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