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own labors. Go you, encouraged by the 

 earnest sympathy of your neighbors and 

 fellow countrymen ; by the unanimous and 

 touching interest manifested by the crowd, 

 which, more successfully than any scenic 

 representation, has filled this theatre ; by 

 that interest of the heart, which woman by 

 her presence here evinces. Go forth to 

 cultivate your fruits, your flowers, your 

 vegetables, the marvels of scientific culture, 

 in your laboratories under the noonday sun. 

 For my part, I retire to cultivate in that old 

 and desolate garden of my father, of which 

 I was just speaking to you, that which a 

 poor laborer in the domain of mind culti- 

 vates, often more exhausted with fatigue 

 than you : study, letters, books, philosophy, 

 history, politics ; the art of governing men, 

 of improving societ)'', of ameliorating the 

 condition of the people — to cause liberty 

 and civilization to produce yet more mature 

 and perfect fruits (Applause). But I return 

 there, above all, to cultivate the memory cf 

 those persons and those things there loved 

 and lost ; those tender recollections of the 

 past ; those living, yet bleeding traces of 

 a life more than half run. . . . (The speaker 

 paused as if seeking some expression, or as 

 if deliberating mentally with himself). I 

 hesitate, gentlemen : I do hesitate. Ought 



I to go on ? (Another pause). No : I will 

 say no more. There is a diffidence in all 

 profound emotions. We must not lay bare 

 the inmost soul : there are tears which are 

 only to be shed in the silence and the se 

 crecy of the heart ! . . . . I go, then, to seek 

 again in that home of my childhood, attrac- 

 tions more powerful for me, for us all, than 

 the mo.st exquisite and odorous exhibitions 

 at your meetings ; the perfume of our re- 

 collections, the odor of the past, the vo- 

 luptuousness of that melancholy which is 

 the autumnal flower of human life ! All, 

 all these are for us, emanations, as it were, 

 from the Earth : a far-ofl' perception, a fore- 

 taste of those Elysiums and those Edens, 

 of those everlasting gardens, where we all 

 hope to meet again in bliss, those whom 

 we loved and parted from in tears ! . . All, 

 all these which make the man who is true 

 to nature, at whatever distance, in whatever 

 lowliness or in however exalted station for- 

 tune may have placed him, long to return 

 and finish his days on the spot which gave 

 him birth, and to find at last his grave in 

 the garden which was his cradle ! 



(When the speaker ceased, there was no 

 applause ; but a deep, solemn, and tender 

 impression seemed to reign throughout the 

 audience.) 



"WINE-MAKING IN THE VTEST ; 

 WITH ANSWERS BY N. LONGAVORTH, TO VARIOUS QUERIES BY C. W. ELLIOTT, CINCI?s-NATI. 



Those who read for entertainment, will do 

 well to pass to the latter part of this article, 

 which contains Mr. Longworth's own ac- 

 count of some of the most interesting mat- 

 ters connected with vine-growing in the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati. 



I will first write a brief account of the 

 usual methods here, of preparing the ground 

 and planting a vineyard. The soil should 

 be well broken up, to the depth of eighteen 

 or twenty inches. This is usually done, in 

 this neighborhood, with the spade; which 

 is, however, expensive. A common practice 

 is to put all the top soil at the bottom : this 

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does not seem to me to be so well as to 

 mix the top and bottom, in digging or deep 

 ploughing. 



Cuttings, or vines of one or two years 

 grow^th, are then planted, in the spring or 

 fall, in rows five feet apart, and standing 

 four feet from each other in the row : these 

 are cut down during thejirst three years, to 

 two eyes or buds, only one of which is al- 

 lowed to make a shoot. In the thi7-d year, 

 the vines may be allowed to bear a few 

 bunches of grapes, if the roots are strong. 

 The vines, after the third year, are pruned 

 away, about the first of March, to one shoot 



