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Europe by the Dufours. This tree, which bears a 

 Summer Bell pear, still gives an annual crop of 

 its indifferent fruit. Just beyond is the hillside 

 where the plantings were made, and the remnant of 

 a stone wall marks one of the boundaries of the 

 vineyard. The hillsides are covered with red cedars, 

 with now and then a 

 honey locust, and the 

 open places support a 'Jfj 

 bountiful crop of mul- 

 leius and teasels. The 

 slopes are very rocky, * 



the Outcrop in lower Fig - 4 - Site of the house at "First 



. Vineyard." 1895. 



levels being Trenton 



limestone, and in the higher courses the lower and 

 middle Hudson sandstones. This hillside, where once 

 the vine was planted with prophetic hope, is now a 

 sheep pasture ; and only tradition remains to recall 

 the struggles and the disappointments of a noble 

 band of pioneers whose labor, though fruitless to 

 themselves, was fraught with blessings for the years 

 to come. 



The Second Experiment of the DH fours 



Although wine had been made in the Kentucky 

 vineyard for two or three years, it was evident to the 

 colonists that the enterprise was doomed to failure. 

 A fatal sickness had overtaken the vines. In 1802, 

 certain of the colony sought a new location. Going 

 down the Kentucky River to its mouth, they ascended 

 the Ohio for a few miles, and chose the bottom of the 

 rich and gently rising valley of what is now the 



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