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ware to the Ohio, in its preparation to become a wine-making 

 State. 



New York has already several vineyards of considerable im- 

 portance, which furnish its cities with some hundreds of tons of 

 fresh grapes, and some of them have made wine to a limited extent, 

 which we hope never will be any greater until their proprietors 

 learn to make something more worthy of the name of wine than 

 the sweetened alcoholic beverages which they have produced. 



In Connecticut, there is at this time a very decided " awaken- 

 ing " upon the subject of grape-growing, and large quantities are 

 already produced, and the intention of making it eventually a 

 wine-producing State is evident. 



Of the extent of g-rape-growing in the vicinity of New York, an 

 idea may be formed from the quantity of fresh grapes known to 

 have been sold the last season by some of the leading commission 

 houses. The editor of The Vineyard, published at Jersey City, 

 has asceri.ained by careful examination that seven dealers, prin- 

 cipally in Washington market, sold of the crop of 1861, one hun- 

 dred and ten tons. This does not cover much more than half of 

 the quantity sold in this city, as it includes none of Dr. Underbill's 

 crop, which we estimate at twenty-five tons at least ; nor does it 

 include the sales of some produce commission houses which we 

 know sold large quantities of grapes, nor any of the small lots 

 sold by owners directly to hotels, private families, and retail 

 dealers. It is therefore quite safe to calculate that 200 tons of 

 grapes of the growth of 1861 were sold in the city of New York, 

 and, with the exception of a few from Delaware, all of the 

 growth of the three States we have named. 



Of the extent of grape growing in the vicinity of Cincinnati 

 the most of our readers have some idea, from seeing that that city 

 is beginning to supply a considerable portion of the growing 

 demand for American wine, and that some of the wine made 

 there is equal in quality to any that can be imported at the same 

 cost. It is also indisputably true that Avine has been made 

 within two or three years at Cincinnati that is appreciated by 

 connoisseurs equal to the very best ever produced in France, 

 Spain, or Italy. Tliis, it is needless to say, is made from the 

 comparatively new Delaware grape, which is now acknowledged 

 by the best wine-makers at Cincinnati to be the best wine grape 

 ever produced by out-door cultivation in America. 



