Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on American Grape Culture and Wine Making Introduction; Climate - Location - Exposure - Shelter; The Soil and its Preparation - Manures; Laying out the Vineyard; Planting the Vineyard; Training - First and Second Years; Training - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Years; Training - Guyot - Guyot Improved - Upright Stock with alternate Spurs - The Bow System - The Jura; Training - Thomery; Training - Various Forms; Description of Varieties 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.