16 PREFACE. 



for the importation of the shrub at a reasonable 

 price. He has also attempted to write a vine- 

 dresser's guide, which, though limited in extent, 

 contains all the necessary information upon the 

 subject to insure success to those who will 

 undertake the cultivation for themselves. He has 

 confined his remarks to such points as are abso- 

 lutely useful, and aimed particularly at pointing 

 out the easiest and most economical means to be 

 employed. 



He might, indeed, have descended more into 

 detail concerning the mode of turning the prod- 

 uct of the grape to account, and especially the 

 various means of making wines and imitating all 

 those of Europe, which would be very easy in a 

 country possessing such a great variety of cli- 

 mate, but he reserves a more thorough treatise on 

 the subject until the first steps shall have been 

 taken and the number of vineyards begun to 

 multiply. 



If, by his feeble efforts, he succeeds in render- 

 ing the cultivation of the vine general in the 

 United States, he will consider himself amply re- 

 warded by having enriched a free and hospitable 



