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this vicinity. Also the statistics, as far as could be ascertained by the 

 Committee, of the number of acres planted, the number of gallons of 

 wine made this year, and pounds of grapes sold within the limits of the 

 city of Warsaw and township of Wilcox, embracing an area of about 

 twent\'-five sections of territory. 



WEIGHT OF MXJST. 



Catawba, Oct. 3 So degrees 



Clinton, Oct. 13 95 '' 



Catawba, Oct. 24 90 '^ 



Delaware, Sept. 7 103 degrees 



Taylor, Sept. 8 85 " 



Concord, Sept. 11 So " 



Virginia, Sept. 28 100 '• 



[Note by the Editor. — This list contains the names of 79 Grape Gro\vei-s, 

 with the No. acres each has in grapes, the No. lbs. fiiiit sold, and the No. gals, 

 wine made by each; making in the aggregate, 209 acres; 138,100 lbs. sold, and 39,873 

 gals, wine made. Want of space excludes the details.] 



Of course a number of small lots are not enumerated in the above ; 

 while of some of the acres named, the yield could not be ascertained. 

 Portions of the above are in their first and second years of growth. 



Other members of the Society, residing outside of the limits named, 

 have more or less of vineyard, the product of which is not included in 

 this table. Among these, the most noteworthy, is that of Mr. Gabriel 

 Marlot, ten miles east of town, consisting of about fifteen acres, of various 

 ages and sorts, producing this year about seven thousand gallons of 

 wine. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Geo. B. Worthen, 

 William Bauder, 

 Louis Stracke, 

 Claus Albers. 



Committee. 



December, 28. 



A. C. Hammond, Esq., President of the Society, read the fol- 

 lowing 



annual address. 



Custom demands of me, as your presiding officer, a few remarks, at 

 this annual meeting. I shall endeavor to be brief, that we may proceed 

 with the regular and more important business of the Society. 



Perhaps we may, without egotism, congratulate ourselves that we are 

 making some progress, and with each passing year beginning to under- 

 stand the peculiarities of our surroundings, and some of the causes of 

 our many failures and disappointments. 



But — asks one — why so many failures in Horticulture "i — for they ai^e 

 apparently the rule, and success the exception. As a business is it not 

 attended with so many fluctuations and subject to such great risks, as to 

 make it unsafe for a man to enter into it as a means of livelihood.'' In 

 other words, Will it Pay ? This is the all-important question to be 



