THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



motor of the new light. He was a man of strong per- 

 sonality and great enterprise, and he threw himself full 

 length into the new grape -growing. He was farmer and 



Fig. 12. Nicholas Longworth at 74 years. 



banker, and died possessed of great wealth. His grape- 

 growing and wine - making were eminently successful for 

 many years. In 1850, he wrote that the Catawba "will 

 be worth millions of dollars to the United States, and I 

 doubt not that grapes of equal value are yet to be found. 

 * * * If the wild hills of California be as rich in 



