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The Cultivation of the Native Grape

by George Husmann

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  1. 1Dedication — Introduction
  2. 2Grape Culture
  3. 3Propagation of the Vine
  4. 4II — By Single Eyes
  5. 5The Propagating House
  6. 6Mode of Operating
  7. 7III — By Cuttings in Open Air
  8. 8IV — By Layering
  9. 9V — By Grafting
  10. 10The Vineyard
  11. 11Preparing the Soil
  12. 12What Shall We Plant?
  13. 13The Concord
  14. 14Norton’s Virginia
  15. 15Hartford Prolific
  16. 16Planting
  17. 17Treatment of the Vine the First Summer
  18. 18Treatment of the Vine the Second Summer
  19. 19Treatment of the Vine the Third Season
  20. 20Treatment of the Vine the Fourth Summer
  21. 21Training the Vines on Arbors and Walls
  22. 22Other Methods of Training the Vine
  23. 23Diseases of the Vine
  24. 24Insects Injurious to the Grape
  25. 25Girdling the Vine to Hasten Maturity
  26. 26Manuring the Vine
  27. 27Thinning of the Fruit
  28. 28Renewing Old Vines
  29. 29A Few Necessary Improvements
  30. 30Preserving the Fruit
  31. 31Gathering the Fruit to Make Wine
  32. 32Varieties of Grapes
  33. 33Norton’s Virginia, (Norton’s Seedling, Virginia Seedling)
  34. 34Herbemont (Herbemont Madeira, Warren)
  35. 35Hartford Prolific
  36. 36Cynthiana (Red River)
  37. 37Taylor (Bullitt.)
  38. 38Rogers’ Hybrid, No. 1
  39. 39Creveling, (Catawissa) (Bloom)
  40. 40North Carolina Seedling
  41. 41Louisiana (Burgunder)
  42. 42Alvey (Hagar)
  43. 43Blood’s Black
  44. 44Union Village
  45. 45Ives’ Seedling, (Ives’ Madeira)
  46. 46Minor Seedling, (Venango)
  47. 47Mary Ann
  48. 48Northern Muscadine
  49. 49Hyde’s Eliza, (Canby’s August) · Marion Port — Poeschel’s Mammoth
  50. 50Cape (Alexander, Schuylkill Muscadell)
  51. 51Dracut Amber — Elsinburgh, (Missouri Bird’s Eye)
  52. 52Garber’s Albino
  53. 53North America
  54. 54Allen’s Hybrid, (Allen’s White Hybrid)
  55. 55Cuyahoga (Coleman’s White)
  56. 56Rogers’ Hybrid, No. 15
  57. 57Massachusetts White
  58. 58Wine-Making
  59. 59The Wine-Cellar
  60. 60Apparatus for Wine-Making — The Grape Mill and Press
  61. 61Fermenting Vats
  62. 62The Wine Casks
  63. 63Making the Wine
  64. 64After Treatment of the Wine
  65. 65Diseases of the Wine and Their Remedies
  66. 66Treatment of Flat and Turbid Wine
  67. 67Use of the Husks and Lees
  68. 68Dr. Gall’s and Petiol’s Method of Wine Making
  69. 69The Must Scale or Saccharometer
  70. 70The Acidimeter and Its Use
  71. 71The Change of the Must, by Fermentation, Into Wine
  72. 72Normal Must
  73. 73The Must of American Grapes
  74. 74Wine Making Made Easy
  75. 75Statistics
  76. 76Cost of an Acre of Concord
  77. 77Cost of an Acre of Herbemont
  78. 78Cost of an Acre of Norton’s Virginia
  79. 79Cost of an Acre of Delaware

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