Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) The Rural Manuals EDITED BY L. H. BAILEY MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING The Rural Manuals EDITED BY L. H. BAILEY MANUAL OF GARDENING--_Bailey_ MANUAL OF FARM ANIMALS--_Harper_ FARM AND GARDEN RULE-BOOK--_Bailey_ MANUAL OF FRUIT INSECTS--_Slingerland and Crosby_ MANUAL OF WEEDS--_Georgia_ THE PRUNING-MANUAL--_Bailey_ MANUAL OF FRUIT DISEASES--_Hesler and Whetzel_ MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS--_Stocking_ MANUAL OF VEGETABLE-GARDEN INSECTS--_Crosby and Leonard_ MANUAL OF TREE DISEASES--_Rankin_ MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING--_Van Rensselaer, Rose, and Canon_ MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING--_Hedrick_ MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING BY U. P. HEDRICK HORTICULTURIST OF THE NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1919 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Setup and electrotyped. Published June, 1919. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE Seventy-nine books on grapes enrich the pomology of North America, not counting numerous state and national publications. Pomological writers in America have been partial to the grape, for other fruits do not fare nearly so well. Twenty-two books are devoted to the strawberry, fourteen to the apple, to the peach nine, cranberry eight, plum five, pear nine, quince two, loganberry one, while the cherry, raspberry, and blackberry are not once separated from other fruits in special books. Thus, though a comparative newcomer among the fruits of the country, the grape has been singled out for a treatise more times than all other fruits of temperate climates combined--seventy-nine books on the grape, seventy on all other fruits. This statement of partiality does not lead to an apology for a new book on the grape. There is urgent need for a new book. But three of the seventy-nine treatises on this fruit are contemporary, and all but one, a handbook on training, are records from vanished minds. Methods change so rapidly and varieties multiply so fast, that to keep pace there must be new books on fruits every few years. Besides, the types of grapes are so diverse, and different soils, climates, and treatments produce such widely dissimilar results, that many books are required to do justice to this fruit--the vineyard should be seen through many eyes.