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buildings are all first class, and admirably adapted for their 

 purposes, but are plain and inexpensive. 



Altogether it may safely be said that the Natoma Vineyards 

 are a most striking illustration of the rapid advance of the 

 viticultural interests in the State of California, and are a last- 

 ing credit to the judgment and ability of Horatio P. Liver- 

 more, who planned and executed them and who, had he 

 continued to manage them, would have undoubtedly worked 

 out many results from the extensive importations of foreign 

 varieties there grouped together, which would have proved 

 of the greatest benefit to the State at large in its viticultural 

 interests. 



It is to be regretted in this regard, that the management 

 succeeding Mr. Livermore, has failed to carry out his 

 plans, has neglected to prosecute many of the interesting 

 experiments, so wisely instituted at N*atoma, and has preferred 

 to run the property solely for immediate commercial results. 

 It is believed that thus have been lost many opportunities of 

 great future enhancement of the value of their own property, 

 and of concurrent inestimable benefit to the viticultural in- 

 terests of California; for never in California were there grouped 

 in any one vineyard, so many promising features as at Natoma, 

 and no where could they have been so readily and profitably 

 worked to a fruitage, had the policy which originated the 

 vineyard been maintained. 



One of the important enterprises of this kind are the Sunny 

 Slope vineyards, formerly owned by Mr. L. J. Rose, near San 

 Gabriel, California, but lately sold to an English syndicate. 

 Mr. Rose, Viticultural Commissioner for the Los Angeles dis- 

 tricts, is one of the pioneers of grape culture in the State, and 

 some of his vineyards are sixty years old, being among the 

 oldest in the State, and yet in a flourishing condition. In 

 1 8*86, Mr. Rose made, at his extensive wineries and distillery 

 225,000 gallons of wine, of which 100,000 were red wines, 



