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It is a patient labor of a long life to get any new seedling fruit 

 that possesses qualities superior to others already known. And 

 after a new grape is developed, for men in ordinary circumstances 

 to undertake to propogate it in sufficient quantity to supply the 

 whole country, would require another lifetime. 



Very few persons have any idea of the expenses and labor of 

 propagation. Let us glance at the establishment of Dr. Grant, 

 upon lona Island, three miles above Peekskill, on the Hudson. 

 This has been the great center of propagation of the Delaware 

 vines, which have been multiplied faster than any other sort ever 

 were multiplied before, and for the reason that the doctor has 

 the greatest facilities for the purpose in this country, or perhaps 

 any other. He has an acre covered with glass houses ; not low, 

 glass-covered beds, or sheds, but tall buildings, with glass roofs 

 and sides, in which he can grow 200,000 vines a year. Of course 

 he grows them for sale, and such men as Robert Buchanan, and 

 Messrs. Motier, Bogeji, Werk, Schnicke, and other old and expe- 

 rienced wine-makers, buy them. More than 100,000 of the 

 number are Delawares, which sell from fifty cents to three dol- 

 lars each, which is less than half what they have been sold at in 

 former years. 



The next most salable plants are the Dianas, of which about 

 fifty thousaud will be sold for planting in the spring of 1862. 

 Then comes the Anna, Rebecca, Herbemont, Lincoln, Lenoir, and 

 several sorts of lesser note and lower prices, but with compara- 

 tively few purchasers. 



The strong proof of the excellence of the first-named is in the 

 constant demand, and that a good deal of the demand comes 

 from those who have already planted vine yards of the sorts that 

 were so popular ten 3'-ears ago, but now find their account in 

 rooting them out and filling the ground with vines that will pro- 

 duce better fruit and prove far more profitable. 



We might give many more reasons ; but have we not said 

 enough to make all who are disposed to plant vines, whether for 

 a vineyard, or to grow fruit for market, or to produce grapes for 

 their own family use, to ask the question and get a satisfactory 

 answer as to what sort they shall plant ? 



Remember, under all circumstances, when about to make your 

 selection to plant, that taste must be consulted, and that is pro- 

 gressive ; that one who never tasted a good grape may be con- 



