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for me to try and give them advice. I will say this much, 

 however, that I have tried a great many wines of their 

 make, and although there is a vast improvement percepti- 

 ble lately in the quality of their products, yet they are all 

 too heavy to suit the palate of the true connoisseur in 

 wines. It is an old established fact, that the true bouquet 

 wines are only grown in the temperate zones, and there 

 is a certain amount of acid necessary in the must to de- 

 velop bouquet in fermentation. Moreover, the Phylloxera 

 is busy at work there, and I fully believe, from all the 

 knowledge I can gain of the habits of that little devasta- 

 tor, that they will be compelled to resort to our cestivalis 

 and cordifolia varieties, to regenerate their failing vine- 

 yards, as we have already seen it done in France. The 

 day may not be so .far distant, when the despised grape of 

 North America will become the only hope of the failing 

 grape-growers of all nations. Let us then do our best to 

 furnish such material as will be an honor to the country, 

 and carry the fame of the " Wineland " of the old legend 

 through the length and breadth of the earth. 



CHAPTER XV. 



VARIETIES FOR DIFFERENT LOCALITIES. 



I will now try to give a list of varieties for table and 

 market and one for wine, for the three sections of coun- 

 try, Eastern and North-Eastern States, Middle and West- 

 ern States, and Southern States. I do not pretend 

 that it should be a complete guide, for great allowance 

 must always be made for soil and location, and no one a 

 thousand miles away can give so good advice to a novice, 

 as he can gather in the nearest vineyards by actual ob- 

 servation, provided he can consult any of his neighbors. 



