Investigation and Improvement of American Grapes at the Munson Experiment Grounds Near Denison, Texas, From 1876 to 1900 Page: 224
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TEXAS AGRICULTU h-,A, EXPERIMENT sTATr
soil 18 to 24 inches below surface, with southern and southwestern expos-
ire.
Vineyard No. 6: Two acres, adjoining vineyard No. 5 on the east,
with same character of soil, and southern slope.
Vineyard No. 7: One acre, planted in 1894, adjoining vineyard No.
4 on the south, with same character of soil, with eastern, western and
southern slope.
Vineyard No. 8: One-eighth acre, adjoining vineyard No. 6 on the
east, with similar soil and exposure.
The leading and most of the better American varieties, and a good many
Vinifera varieties, and vines of all the native species were planted in the
vineyards. Not all were planted in all the vineyards, but all, or nearly
al, were grown in both the limy and sandy soil. The leading varieties
were grown in marketable quantities. [See Chapter II. for list of species
and varieties planted in the vineyards.]
GRAPE NURSERIES. PLANTED WITH CUTTINGS.
Ech year since 1880, from one to five acres of land have been devoted
to growing plants from cuttings of nearly all introduced varietie that
were planted in the vineyards, including, during several years, all the
native wild grape species of the United States, excepting V. rotundifolia
and V. Mllunsoniana, which do not grow from cuttings, but are propagated
by layering in vineyard.
SEEDLING GRAPE NURSERIES.
Since 1881, when the first were planted in Texas, some ten different
years, have large numbers of select and hybridized grape seeds been
planted, carefully tilled, studied, culled and the young vines been trans-
planted and rigidly tested in test vineyards, as described in Chapter III.
After thus educating myself for the work and making such extensive
preparation for the origination of varieties, which were essential to vine-
yard culture, to enable it to fill its entire sphere, few persons regarded my
effort otherwise than that of a "crank," and often have. I heard myseir
mentioned as the "vine crank." This, to me, was good evidence that my
object was not comprehended; that the special knowledge necessary to
comprehend it, and become interested in it, was lacking generally among
,rape growers, and even among the majority of writers upon grapes. It
was clear to me that in order to make the work generally beneficial, and
regarded with any degree of favor by the public, that,
THE PEOPLE MUST BE EDUCATED.
Those who are to plant the varieties must know, as well as the originator,
why the new varieties are preferable to the old, and be demonstrably con-
vinced that they are better and more profitable. It must be shown that the
most essential virtues of varieties are founded in specific blood.294
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Munson, T. V. (Thomas Volney), 1843-1913. Investigation and Improvement of American Grapes at the Munson Experiment Grounds Near Denison, Texas, From 1876 to 1900, pamphlet, 1900; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1353064/m1/14/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson College Foundation.