 | John Baxter - 1836 - 324 pagine
...eastern to the south-eastern both inclusive, the last of which, indeed, may be considered the very best. Soil. — The natural soil which is most congenial...depth, on a dry bottom of gravel, stones, or rocks. One of the principal causes of grapes not ripening well on the open wall'in this country, is the great... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pagine
...growth of the vine, and to the perfection of its fruit in this country, is a light, rich, sandy foam, not more than eighteen inches in depth, on a dry bottom...roots of the vine, which run with eagerness into all cltfu, crevices, and openings. In these dry and warm situations, the fibrous extremities, pushing themselves... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - 1839 - 528 pagine
...of being annoyed by superfluous water." Hoare, in his treatise on the Vine, justly observes that, " The natural soil which is most congenial to the growth...depth, on a dry bottom of gravel, stones, or rocks. [It is to be observed here, however, that this author is alluding to vines grown in the open air.]... | |
 | 1840 - 700 pagine
...sorts of grapes, including the Black Hamburgh, to great perfection in such a situation. Now for the soil — ' The natural soil which is most congenial...eighteen inches in depth, on a dry bottom of gravel, atones, or rocks. No sub-soil can possess too great a quantity of these materials for the roots of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pagine
...congenial to the growth of the vine, and to the perfection of its fruit in this country, is a lighf, rich, sandy loam, not more than eighteen inches in...the roots of the vine, which run with eagerness into nil clefts, crevices, and openings. In these dry and warm situations, the fibrous extremities, pushing... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1849 - 788 pagine
...cases, the apricot ; and those south of London may be covered with the grape vine. 1)78. Soil. — Light, rich, sandy loam, not more than eighteen inches in depth, on a dry bottom of gravel, stone, or rock, forms the most desirable soil and subsoil for the vine. Mr. Hoare truly observes, that... | |
 | 1850 - 610 pagine
...growth of the vine, and to the perfection of its fruit, in this country [England] is a light soil, sandy loam, not more than EIGHTEEN INCHES IN DEPTH, on a dry bottom of gravel sione, or rocks." — Hoare, p. 44. You describe the grape border at Clinton Point, as being nearly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pagine
...sorts of grapes, including the Black Hamburgh, to great perfection in such a situation. Now for the soil — ' The natural soil which is most congenial...depth, on a dry bottom of gravel, stones, or rocks. No sub- soil can possess too great a quantity of these materials for the roots of the vine, which run... | |
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The natural soil which is most congenial to the growth of the vine, and to the perfection of its fruit in this country, is a light, rich, sandy loam, not more than eighteen inches in depth, on a dry bottom of gravel, stones, or rocks. 