YORK, Penn. June 4. 1924.
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York. Penn. June 4, 1924.
Dear Sir--Yours of 5th ult came safe to
hand, and my being somewhat unwell must
be an apology for my not replying sooner.
Twill now attempt it, and to your first ques-
fion:


SOIL.


Mine is slaty ridge. in a limestone
country, and presume there is limestone
under it.


PLANTING.


Iplanted my vines in rows, by digging a
french four feet long, and about nine inches
wide, and fifteen inches deep. In this plant
cd, at each end, two cuttings, about three
and half or four feet long, letting two buds
appear on each vine above ground, then l
filled up the trench, packing the ground
pretty tight; then, four feet from the end OF
this trench. dug another similar, and plant
ed 1t in the same way, and so OH until the
row was finished. BY this mode the vines
are two in place, and each two, four feet
from the next in the row. The next row
planted twelve feet from the first, in the
same way. The second and third years,
when the shoots were long enough, dug a
trench crossways, from each row, four feet
long, towards the opposite row, and laid
the branches or shoots from the first plant
ed rows, IN them, letting the ends of the
two vines be little above ground; by this
means two rows in the twelve feet interval
are formed, which makes all the rows four
feet apart.


PRUNING.


The first year none; the second year very