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arrangement of the grounds, the tenor of the suggestions are unexceptionable, but to the 

 following we must object : 



"The frait and vegetable garden, with a sheltered patch for herbs you place near the kitchen and 

 servant's offices, and are not very anxious they should be iu sight, for horticulturise it as you will, a 

 row of bare bean poles is not a very sightly object from a window." 



We admit that fruit and kitchen gardens in general are not very sightly^ but we 

 believe they may, and ought to be so. Suppose, for instance, tRat the borders are well 

 planted with nice pyramidal and dwarf fruit trees, the walls or fences covered with 

 grapes or trained trees, the interior compartments well cropped with vegetables ; and 

 suppose even bean poles, not bare, but covered with beautiful running peas and beans ; — 

 such a garden would not be unsightly, but beautiful, the pride of its bv/ner "and the 

 admiration of his neighbors. We know of a few such gardens, though but too few, 

 in difi'erent sections of our country, and when business calls us in their neighborhood we 

 often travel many miles to visit them. Next month we intend to present a chapter 

 from the book, with illustrations and description of a Suburban Cottage, 



WINE MAKING. 



BY C. BLAKELY, OF ROXBURY, CONNECTICUT. 



I SAW" in the October number of your paper, a request that some one acquainted Avith the 

 process of making wane, would communicate information on that subject. To the request 

 of your correspondent, I would add ray own, together with some remarks of a practical 

 nature, such as my limited knowledge and e}f]perience may suggest, with the hope of 

 ultimately securing the desired result. And here, as it seems to me, we should commence 

 ^vith the cultivation of the grape. 



For the purpose of making wine, it is of no small importance that a kind of grape be 

 selected that is well adapted to that particular use, otherwise the desired object will be, 

 to say the least, but imperfectly accomplished. It is one thing to extract juice from a 

 sour, ill-flavored grape, but quite another thing to convert such juice into good, 

 well-flavored wane. The grape should also be adapted to the climate.^ and should ripen 

 in season to avoid the autumnal frosts. The red, and white Scuppernong, which are a 

 good wine grape south of 37° north, would entirely fail, for all practical purposes, in 

 more northern latitudes. The Cataw^ba, which has been thoroughly tried, as a wine 

 grape, in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, particularly by Mr. Longworth, and is 

 esteemed by him one of the best w'ine grapes for that part of the country, besides being 

 an excellent table grape, would probably flourish well from Washington City to Boston. 

 I have this year raised them in great perfection, although some of them were a little 

 injured by early frost. The Isabella, which is probably inferior to the Catawba as a 

 wane gTape, will do for still more northern latitudes. 



Locality, soil, and due preparation of the ground, are other things to be considered 

 at the commencement of grape culture. Land Avhich has a southern inclination is 

 preferable, and, in northern latitudes, indispensable, for those kinds which ripen late in 

 the season. High ground, which is not too dry, is also preferable to low, marshy land, 

 both fur producing a better quality of fruit, and escaping the frosts of spring and fall. 



For livqpagating the vine, I consider grafting the better mode to commence with, 

 in case a vine with roots attached cannot be obtained. When a root is to be 

 gi'afted, it is not necessary that it should be of any considerable length ; neither is it 

 necessary that the stump of the vine to which it belonged should be attached to it 

 Just procure a root fi'om among the wild, native kinds, of any convenient or desirable 

 length, then proceed to divide it into parts, say a yard in length, so that each part shall 





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