106 CULTIVATION OP THE 



new and profitable export to the commercial in- 

 tercourse with their neighbours. In the culti- 

 vation of all the stranger plants, it will hardly be 

 fair for us to expect the same immediate success 

 that has attended the cultivation of our southern 

 neighbours, as they have a better climate for the 

 object than we, or at least that may prove the 

 case; though the fact is yet undetermined. If 

 such should prove the result, it then becomes in- 

 cumbent on us to take a useful lesson from the 

 Swiss vigneron, and copy the example of pa- 

 tience, in which, sure of the issue, he goes on 

 from season to season, cultivating the shoots of 

 the preceding year, until they have passed the 

 proper period, which justifies the introduction of 

 them into the vineyard. Both Mexico and 

 Chili have commenced a cultivation from the 

 seed. The effect is yet to be determined, though 

 the highest hopes are entertained of the embryo 

 cultivation. This is a culture that may open to 

 us a fruitful source of experiment. By this 

 means, almost every vine in the globe is in some 

 degree at command, and at little cost. The dried 

 fruits of Spain, the little sweet grape of Smyrna, 

 are at our doors, and may be procured at almost 

 every little village of the country, and as such 

 fruits are in general dried by the heat of the sun, 

 the seeds are not injured, or their powers of ve- 

 getation destroyed. It has been objected against 

 this cultivation, that the seeding requires a long 

 time before it reaches maturity, and a continued 

 vigilance as it slowly unfolds its powers to the 

 eye of the anxious planter. But the apple does 

 he same. I have cultivated to maturity the 



