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dilations of the cost and profit of a vineyard 

 on the Ohio, per acre. The following is the 

 result of his various inquiries : 



Cost of a vineyard per acre, say S250, interest per an- 



aum S?1500 



Cost of attending, per acre, HO 00 



Cost of making the wine, 25 00 



flOO 00 

 Probable average annual product — 200 gallons, 



at$l, 200 00 



Supposed profit per acre, JglOO 00 



This, which we think a reasonable esti- 

 mate, is certainly an encouraging one for the 

 cultivator of the vine in the United States. 

 The soil and climate for the Catawba grape 

 are, however, not to be found over a large 

 range of our country. It is only in the more 

 favored portions of the middle and western 

 states that this grape ripens well enough to 

 produce good wine. But the district extends 

 over a breadth of a thousand miles, and con- 

 tains fertile land enough to supply all our 

 people with pure and wholesome wine. 



The grape is by no means free from ene- 

 mies. Its most fatal one in this country, is 

 Lhe rot — a disease which attacks the fruit ; 

 and though very little known here, it is a 

 very serious mischief on the Ohio. As yet, 

 it bafiies all inquiries ; but a careful perusal 

 of this pamphlet, joined to our own observa- 

 tions, leads us to believe that it is owing to 

 rapid alternations of heat and cold, moisture 

 and drouth, on the surface of the soil. 



Mr. LoNGWORTH states that the only vine- 



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yards about him, free from rot in certain un- 

 favorable seasons, were those of two or three 

 lazy tenants, who left the surface uncultivated, 

 so that it became covered with a thick coat 

 of grass and weeds. Not a rotten berry was 

 to be seen ; while in his own and other vine- 

 yards, the surface of which was neatly dressed, 

 the disease was very prev^alent. 



The remedy, if we understand the force of 

 this circumstance aright, is plainly middling 

 Instead of cultivating the soil all the season, 

 cover it early in the spring with straw, litter, 

 sea- weed, tan, or whatever else may be had. 

 The cost of the mulch will not be more, in 

 most cases, than the labor of dressing the 

 land ; and it will effectually prevent all ne- 

 cessity for the latter. At any rate, it is well 

 worth trial, and two or three facts within our 

 notice lead us to believe that it will prevent 

 the rot effectually. 



Taking it for granted, that the Catawba 

 will give us good hock, and sparkling wine, 

 another native variety that will produce ex- 

 cellent table claret is a desideratum. The 

 Schuylkill Muscadel, or Cape Grape, is said 

 to do this on the Ohio. We have not had 

 an opportunity of tasting the wine made from 

 this grape ; but so many cultivators are now 

 experimenting with seedlings, that we cannot 

 doubt a variety capable of giving us excellent 

 red wine will soon be brought to notice. 



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BY J. W. WILD, ESQ. 



The picturesque cottage, shown in the fron- 

 tispiece of this number, was originally de- 

 signed for Loudon's Architectural Supple- 

 ment, by Mr. Wild, an English architect. 

 W^e copy it from that work (which is in very 

 few hands in this country,) as affording a good 

 hint for a picturesque cottage or gate-lodge, 

 in a wooded or sylvan situation. 



The plan shows a porch, a; lobby, I; 

 kitchen or living room, c ; parlor, d, with a 

 bay, o, which may be separated in the winter 

 season by a screen of glass, so as to form a 

 small green-house ; an open vera7id,a, e, with 

 seats ; a staircase, /, over which there is a 

 pigeon-house, and from which the sign is pro- 

 jected ; g, is the back kitchen ; h, the pan- 



