HINTS, &c. 



IN compliance with the wishes of some of the 

 members of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, 

 I have attempted to sketch the general principles 

 and practices used in the manufacture of wine, 

 with a view of assisting the efforts of those whom 

 the Society, by its annual premiums, has encoura- 

 ged to cultivate the art of making this liquor from 

 fruits of domestic growth. 



In laying down these rules, and in describing 

 these usages, 1 have been chiefly careful in select- 

 ing, and solicitous in inforcing, those which could 

 most readily be brought to bear on our domestic 

 manufacture ; being desirous rather to point out 

 such analogies as were applicable to the practices 

 which the Society has so laudably patronized, 

 than to enter either into the chemical history of 

 this most interesting process, or to give a detailed 



