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experiment to civilize this vine, and bring it 

 into cultivation, can hardly fail of success. 



I understand that a small grape (which, how- 

 ever, I have not seen) is produced on one of 

 these islands, possessing a rich sacharine flavour, 

 remarkable for a savage fruit, and which, so far 

 as I heard, has never been cultivated by an in- 

 habitant of the main. I have twice sent thither 

 for the cuttings of this vine, but in both cases 

 the proper season was suffered to elapse before 

 they were taken from the plant, and I found that 

 the moral inculcated by the instructive fable of 

 the lark and her young, afforded me the strongest 

 reliance for the accomplishment of my wish. 

 Through the whole of our vast country, it is pro- 

 bable, may be found varieties of the native vine, 

 worthy of introduction into our grounds. The 

 little white grape from Schuylkill county, in our 

 own State, known as the Orwigsburg, and the 

 Scuppernon of Virginia, may both be cited as de- 

 serving the notice of the cultivator. The former 

 has been tried on a limited scale, and it must be 

 admitted with but partial success. That success 

 at the outset of the experiment was but partial, 

 would be considered by the Swiss vine dresser 

 as strongly favourable to the issue of the theory, 

 as such partial success is the first development 

 of the powers of the plant, thfe first advance to a 

 new locale, and indicates the commencement of 

 a contest which nature is generally compelled to 

 wage, with an opposition to her love of conquest, 

 and the extension of her vegetable kingdom. 

 It is to be regretted that the cultivation of the 

 Orwigsburg was abandoned, and the want of 



