I asked a man who has the right to speak as an authority how much country could be placed under viticulture if all the available water supply was nursed and utilised.
It may be fairly said that all the folk in the province engaged in viticulture are from the wine-growing regions of Italy and Spain.
That is incorrect; but it has a soil that is peculiarly adapted for vines, together with a climate and a situation which for viticulture could not be improved--though there is a fly in the ointment, of which more anon.
Take San Juan, in the north, an old town which jogged along with viticulture till ten years ago, when it made a bound, and progress in growing grapes has been considerable.
By Cicero's time, however, attention was being given to viticulture and to the scientific making of wines, and by the time of Augustus vintages were produced that vied with the best brought in from abroad.
Viticulture on the Pacific slope is divided into three interdependent industries which are almost never quite independent of each other--the wine industry, raisin industry and table-grape industry.
Viticulture is commercially important in several other regions than those outlined.
An old dictum of viticulture is that the nearer the growing parts of the vine approach the perpendicular, the more vigorous the parts.
Vitis æstivalis Bourquiniana, known only under cultivation and of very doubtful botanical standing, furnishes American viticulture several valuable varieties.
The second commercial grape of importance in American viticulture is Concord, which came from the seed of a wild grape planted in the fall of 1843 by Ephraim W.
There was a time, as we have said before, when grape-growers were so beset by pests which they could not control, that viticulture was one of the most uncertain fields in agriculture.
Another region in which viticulture reaches considerable magnitude is in several islands in Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio, the product going largely for the manufacture of wine.
HICKS (Labrusca) Hicks is a remarkably good grape and were it not that the fruit is almost identical with that of Concord, ripening with it or a little earlier, it would have a place in the viticulture of the country.
Its chief industry is grazing; but in some districts viticulture is in an advanced state.
This, however, once discovered, the progress of viticulture has proceeded almost without a check.
Fruit culture and viticulture are in an equally advanced condition, while the quarrying of building stone is now being energetically carried on.
Viticulture is one of the more recent industries of Uruguay.
Viticulture is a matter of great importance here, for the place enjoys a great repute for the quality of its wine.
The next most notable occurrence in the history of Australian viticulture is undoubtedly the action of James Busby who in 1828, says Mr. T.
The School of Viticulture at Conegliano has been the means of increasing the wine production of Italy to an incredible extent.
With that object in view, therefore, it will be my endeavour to bring forward those main points of viticulture which it is most desirable should be widely known.
Many words connected with viticulture are of French origin, as might be expected considering that it is a land where the wine industry is such a source of wealth.
It was a most fortunate thing for Australia, therefore, that her pioneers in viticulture were men like James Busby, who obtained their plants from the finest "cepages" in Europe.
Therefore viticulture must either be made a distinctly separate course at the Agricultural Colleges; or, what if better still, Viticultural Colleges must be established for the purpose alone.
First of all, then, let us refer to the remarks of Mr. Francois de Castella, the author of the Handbook on Viticulture for Victoria.
This School of Viticulture has been such a phenomenal success that other provinces of Italy brought pressure upon the Government.
The Valley of the Hudson has more reason to be called the birthplace of American viticulturethan any other of the grape-growing districts of the country.
He left a lasting impress on the horticulture and viticulture of America, through his experimental efforts with plants and his contribution to American horticultural literature.
John James Dufour gives the next glimpse of the beginnings of American viticulturein his Vine Dresser's Guide published in Cincinnati in 1826.
In granting a charter to Rhode Island in 1663, Charles II sought to encourage viticulture in that State by offering liberal inducements to colonists who would grow grapes and make wine.
The early history of not only the viticulture but of the horticulture of the Chautauqua region is interwritten with that of the Fay family.
James Mease must be accorded the honor of first perceiving and setting forth in print the fact that American viticulture must rise from native grapes.
From this start viticulture in the Keuka region grew apace and there must have been four or five hundred acres of grapes planted when Erskine's report was made in 1859.
That it does not succeed better in New York is a distinct loss to the viticulture of the State.
The first three Underhills were pioneer vineyardists in this State, and were men of great enterprise and initiative, contributing much to American viticulture by precept and example; but none of them was an originator of new varieties.
With the close of the year 1830, we may considerviticulture a firmly established industry in America with the native grapes as a basis.
This variety is hardly as well adapted for commercial viticulture as several other such hybrids and can be recommended only for the garden for the sake of variety.
The name commemorates the service to viticulture of Jacob Rommel of Morrison, Missouri.
But the vine is very hardy and productive, and the fruit ripens early making it valuable in the northern limits of viticulture and in other locations where a vigorous, hardy early grape is wanted.
Viticulture plays an important part in the life of the colony.
Up to the present time viticulture has been the staple industry of the Province of Mendoza, the landscape being covered with vineyards as far as the eye can see.
Seru, seeing the results obtained from viticulture in this province was one of the first men to conceive the idea of growing fruit for canning as has been done in California.
At first there are evidences of viticulture on the side hills but these soon disappear as well as the trees, which now only are seen near the river beds.
In Uruguay exist fine schools for teaching agriculture and viticulture which are of recent organization.
In higher education there may be found (1898) the School of Agriculture and Viticulture at Stellenbosch, and a second one at Sunset East.
No attempt was made to show viticulture in any other way than by its product, but an almost continuous display of grapes was kept on the tables from the opening of the Exposition to its close.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viticulture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
