ON THE ART OF MA1CING WINE. &3 



by those who consider that each experiment must 

 extend to a period of one or two years, and that 

 the labour of a life would be insufficient to reduce 

 every one of these suggestions to practice. It 

 will be enough, that they are all readily dedu- 

 cible from the labours of others, or from fair ana- 

 logies taken from established rules of practice in 

 the wine countries. The co-operation of many, 

 to which I may hope that this essay will afford 

 additional facilities, will in time improve this prac- 

 tice to that degree of perfection of which it is 

 capable, and establish it on a sure and solid basis. 



WOOLWICH, "1 

 May 1815. J" 



NOTE. 



THE Council of the Caledonian Horticultural Society 

 strongly recommend the foregoing essay to the attention 

 of all who wish to promote improvement in the manu- 

 facture of domestic wines. They suspect, that to many, 

 who are in the habit of making such wines, the general 

 principles on which the process depends are nearly un- 

 known, and that others, though in some measure ac- 

 quainted with these principles, still trust too much tcr 

 chance. 



As the Society will continue to give every encourage- 

 ment in their power to the improvement of the manufac- 

 ture of domestic wines, they have earnestly to request 

 every one who may be engaged in it, to keep a memoran- 

 dum of the whole process which was followed, even 



