Meads Grape Culture Wine Rare 1867 Vineyard Farm Fine Vintage Antique Home Guide

Condition: Covers show very little wear, mostly to edges. Binding is tight and pages are solidly attached.

Pages have some foxing and are free from any writing. Pencil mark at the first fly page. Overall this is a very nice copy of a rare book. Printed in 1867, Apparent first edition. Illustrated with nearly 200 engravings drawn from nature.

Chapter 2: Climate, location, exposure, shelter. Chapter 3: The Soil and its Preparation- Manure. Chapter 4: Laying out the Vineyard. Chapter 5: Planting the Vineyard. Chapter 6: Training, first and second years. Chapter 7: Training, third, fourth, and fifth years. Chapter 8: Training Guyot, Guyot improved, upright stock with alternate spurs, the bow system, the Jura. Chapter 10: Training, various forms. Chapter 11: Description of Varieties.

Chapter 12: Description of varieties cont. Chapter 13: Taste, as applied to Fruits.

Chapter 14: When Grapes are Ripe. Chapter 17: Additional Remarks on Planting. Chapter 18: Replacing and Renewing Spurs and Arms, Opposite Arms, Length of Arms, Their General Management, overcropping.

Chapter 19: Stakes and Trellises. Chapter 20: Cultivation, winter management, marketing, tying, growing plants between the row, how to keep grape in winter shelter for protection and ripening, Manures, non-manuring. Chapter 21: Diseases and Insects. Chapter 22: Plan of Quesnel, modes of b. Edding vines, plant of charmeux, ground training, training without stakes, training on trees and trellis combined, ringing the vines, a mildewed leaf, a rack for stakes, heeling in.

Chapter 23: Wine-making and conclusion. No return, unless there is a mistake in the listing.