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ed by abortion. From the plants of succeeding, 

 cuttings, other cuttings have been cultivated, 

 following up the system for several seasons, till 

 in the end, a complete success has crowned the 

 experiment ; and it has been found, that the pro- 

 cess of acclimating the stranger plant has not 

 reached its full accomplishment, until it has pas- 

 sed through four, and sometimes five generations 

 of the vine. 



Instead, therefore, of expecting direct success 

 from the foreign slips, the Swiss vigneron does 

 not look for it. His first plantation is but the 

 nursery to supply his future operations; and he 

 goes on from season to season, cultivating his 

 cuttings from the plants of the preceding year, 

 without attempting to form his vineyard of the 

 foreign fruit he designs to introduce into his 

 grounds, until the fourth, and sometimes the 

 fifth year from the exotic cultivation. In one 

 corner of the grounds, some half dozen vines, 

 from cuttings of the fourth or fifth year are 

 placed, the position of each of which is distinctly 

 marked, and which, like the fugleman of the 

 rifle corps, whose evolutions regulate in the drill 

 the movements of a new recruit, serve as the in- 

 dicators of the cultivation. When these vines 

 produce their first fruit, then is the signal that 

 nature has completed her work of acclimation to 

 the new locale. From the plants, therefore, of 

 that year, the vigneron commences the business 

 of the new cultivation, and prepares to establish 

 from the exotic vine his regular vineyard. 



Such is the process by which the cultivator of 

 the Cantons naturalizes to his climate the foreiga 



