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circumstance, that that culture should be almost 

 wholly unknown in this coifhtry, of fine sun. I 

 have asked the reason of this, seeing that the 

 fruit is so good, the crop so certain, and the cul- 

 ture so easy. The only answer that I have re- 

 ceived is, that the rose-bug destroys the fruit 

 Now, this I know, that I had a grape vine in my 

 court-yard at Philadelphia ; that it bore nothing 

 the first year ; that I made an arched trelis for it 

 to run over ; and that I had hundreds of pounds 

 of fine grapes hanging down in large bunches. 

 Yes, I am told, but this was in a city ; and 

 amongst houses^ and there the grapes do very 

 well. Then, 1799, I saw, at Spring Mills, on 

 the banks of the Shuylkill, in Pennsylvania, the 

 Vineyard of Mr. Le Gau y which covered about 

 two acres of ground, and the vines of which were 

 loaded with fine grapes of, at least twenty 

 different sorts. The vineyard was on the side 

 of a little hill ; on the top of the hill was a corn- 

 field, and in the front of it, across a little valley, 

 and on the side of another little hill, was a wood 

 of lofty trees ; the country in general, being very 

 much covered with woods. Mr. LE GAU made 

 wine from this Vineyard. The vines were plant- 

 ed at about four feet apart, grew upright, and 

 were tied to sticks about five feet high, after the 

 manner of some, at least, of the vineyards of 

 France. Now, are not these facts alone decisive 

 in the negative of the proposition, that there is a 

 generally prevalent obstacle to the growing of 

 grapes in this country ? Mr. HULME, in his 

 Journal to the West (See my Year's Residence, 

 Paragraph 892,) gives an account of the Vine- 

 yards and of the wine made, at VRVAY> on the. 



