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sods can make proper allowances for changes of circum* 

 stances, and are interested in knowing how many things 

 can be accomplished where greater obstacles to success are 

 presented than they themselves are forced to contend 

 against. To persons interested in Horticulture and Fruit 

 culture, residing in the more northern sections of the Union, 

 and especially the British provinces, where considerable 

 difficulties are met with from the shortness of summers, and 

 rigor of winters, a work containing the latest and best 

 information relating to the modes of rendering the natural 

 sources of heat as efficient as possible, cannot fail to be 

 acceptable. The same may be said of those who in every 

 section of our country desire to be able to raise fruits, veg- 

 etables, and flowers, under protection, and by the most 

 judicious application of artificial heat, bring these to per- 

 fection in every month of the year. 



Within a very short time the vine culture has met in 

 the United States with extraordinary success, and the pro- 

 duction from native grapes of wine rivaling some of the best 

 kinds derived from the Rhine and Moselle, has occasioned 

 no little surprise, especially among those who entertained 

 the prevailing theory that no good wine could be produced 

 on the eastern portion of a continent. Mr. Longworth of 

 Cincinnati, the chief among many pioneers, by refuting this 

 dogma has laid his countrymen under the greatest obliga- 

 tions, and added a new resource to the already teeming 

 wealth of the American soil. It is the importance which 

 we think invests this subject, that has led us to devote such 

 particular attention to American grapes and the modes of 

 culture adopted successfully in the vicinity of Cincinnati, 

 for much of which information we have been indebted to an 

 extremely valuable publication made last year by Robert 

 Buchanan, Esq., of that city. 



