Excerpt from Suitability of Grapes for General Culture in the States of the Old South After some preliminary attempts to establish a vineyard, work was begun in earnest by selecting a fairly well drained plot of land lying on the top of aridge on the Nashville Agricultural Normal Institute's farm at Madison, Tennessee. The first grapes planted were Moore's Early, Niagara, Lutie, and Concord; and two years later Worden was added. The following year a further planting was made of Catawba, Caco, Norton, Winchel, and Herbert. In the fall of nineteen hundred seventeen another plot of land adjacent to these plantings was' prepared, plants secured, and about one hundred sixty-eight additional varieties were set. The unit decided on for this plantation was five vines of a variety, though in several instances, either more or less than this number were planted. These variations appear in Chapter II. In nineteen hundred eighteen a number of addi tional varieties were planted, some of them being cross-bred seedlings produced on' the place. A complete list of the varieties planted appears elsewhere. In addition to the work done in this trial vineyard, personal observations have been made in various parts of every state in the old South except Louisiana, as well as in many of the border and northern states. Literally hundreds of miles were tramped through Tennessee, North Carolina, and North Georgia studying wild grapes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.