122 INTRODUCTION. 



cultivator to his brethren of the same profession, 

 who are best able to understand the feelings by 

 which they are dictated, and who, in the practical 

 details communicated, may find a sufficient com- 

 pensation for the unpretending garb in which 

 thejrare presented. Here they will find neither 

 the language of science, nor the flowers of litera- 

 ture. Such are unknown to the writer, who in 

 communicating the result of long experience, has 

 adopted the terms most familiar to the vine 

 dresser, and which he hopes will not be unintel- 

 ligible to the general reader. 



