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country, those costly importations would cease. 

 And one cannot but regret that Americans, usual- 

 ly so thrifty, should submit to heavy outlays 

 rather than seek the advantages to be derived 

 from such an attractive industry. 



Will a lack of suitable soil and climate be 

 urged as an objection? Let it be remembered 

 that nature, lavish of her gifts to the United 

 States, while giving them for boundaries immense 

 seas, and dividing the country by innumerable 

 rivers and lakes, granted them the enjoyment of 

 all varieties of climates. 



It is not going too far to say that European 

 plants of every species would thrive in the United 

 States; and especially the grape-vine, which 

 braves the extreme cold of the 52nd degree of 

 north latitude, and is found again in the torrid 

 zone. 



Hence the author, ever persuaded of the great 

 advantages to be drawn by this country from the 

 cultivation of the vine, and being assured that ig- 

 norance of this branch of husbandry together with 

 the exorbitant price of vine-plants was the sole 

 obstacle to its introduction, opened a subscription 



