50 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



"In Georgia, Maurick, James Gardiner, S. Grimes, Checteau, 

 M'Call. 



"In New Jersey, Cooper, at Camden. Another at Mount Holly. 

 w ln Ohio, Gen. Harrison, Longworth, Dufour, &c. 

 "In Indiana, Rapp of Harmony, the French of Vincennes. 

 "In Alabama, Dr. S. Brown, and at Eagleville. 



"The average crop of wine with us is 300 gallons 

 per acre. At York, where 2,700 vines are put on one 

 acre, each vine has often produced a quart of wine, 

 and thus 675 gallons per acre, value $675 in 1823, 

 besides $200 for 5,000 cuttings. One acre of vineyard 

 did then let for $200 or 300, thus value of the acre 

 about $5,000! This was in poor soil unfit for wheat, 

 and for mere Claret. 



"Now in 1830, that common French Claret often 

 sells only at 50 cents the gallon, the income must 

 be less. I hope our clarets may, in time, be sold 

 for 25 cents the gallon, and table grapes at one 

 cent the lb., and even then an acre of vineyard will 

 give an income of $75, and be worth $1,000 the acre."* 



John Adlum and the Catawba 



The chief distinction of the Cape grape is the 

 fact that it was the variety which first introduced to 

 public notice a distinctively American type of viticul- 

 ture. It appears to have had little merit in point of 

 quality, notwithstanding Bartram's encomium of it. It 

 never attained to a wide planting. The first great 



The reader can find an excellent account of American wines, with references 

 to early writers and experimenters, in Putman's Magazine, iv. 504, 611 (1854). 

 An extract from the article is published in Wells' "Year-Book of Agriculture" for 

 1855-6, p. 307. He may also consult an article on native grapes by D. M. Balch in 

 Proc. Essex. Inst. iv (1864). 



