At the risk of too broad spreading, the author discusses, in a book mainly devoted to native grapes, the culture of European grapes in the far West. The chief aim is, of course, to set forth information that will be helpful to growers of these grapes in the western states, there being no treatises to which western growers can refer, other than bulletins from state and national agricultural institutions. There is, however, another reason for attempting to cover the whole field of grape-growing in America. It is certain that eastern grape-growers will sometime grow European grapes. Western vineyards might well be enlarged with plantings of native grapes. On the supposition, then, that the culture of both European and native grapes is to become less and less restricted in America, the author has ventured to discuss the culture of all grapes for all parts of North America.
In the preparation of this manual, the author's "The Grapes of New York," a book long out of print and never widely distributed, has been laid under heavy contribution, especially in the description of varieties. Acknowledgments are due to F. Z. Hartzell for reading the [chapter on Grape Pests and their Control] and for furnishing most of the photographs used in making illustrations of insects and fungi; to F. E. Gladwin for similar help in preparing the two chapters on [pruning] and [training] the grape in eastern America; to Frederic T. Bioletti for permission to republish from a bulletin written by him from the Agricultural Experiment Station of California almost the whole [chapter on Grape Pruning on the Pacific Slope]; and to O. M. Taylor and to R. D. Anthony for very material assistance in reading the manuscript and proofs.
U. P. Hedrick.
Geneva, N. Y.,
Jan. 1, 1919.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I | The Domestication of the Grape | [1] |
| II | Grape Regions and their Determinants | [16] |
| III | Propagation | [36] |
| IV | Stocks and Resistant Vines | [61] |
| V | The Vineyard and its Management | [73] |
| VI | Fertilizers for Grapes | [97] |
| VII | Pruning the Grape in Eastern America | [108] |
| VIII | Training the Grape in Eastern America | [123] |
| IX | Grape-pruning on the Pacific Coast | [150] |
| X | European Grapes in Eastern America | [184] |
| XI | Grapes under Glass | [192] |
| XII | Grape Pests and their Control | [204] |
| XIII | Marketing Grapes | [230] |
| XIV | Grape Products | [250] |
| XV | Grape Breeding | [273] |
| XVI | Miscellanies | [284] |
| XVII | Grape Botany | [300] |
| XVIII | Varieties of Grapes | [330] |