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THE GEAPE CULTUMST. 



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.JANUARY, 18t)9 NO. i. 



SA.LUT^TOilY 



A tappy now year to you all, who 

 cultivate the noble grape, and make it 

 into wine, whether North or South, 

 Bast or West, on the Atlantic or Pacific 

 coast. We offer you the hand of Mend- 

 ship from this, the geographical centre 

 of American grape culture. ^'In Union 

 is strength !" We therefore ask your 

 assistance for a universal enterprise. 



In assuming the editorial duties of 

 a journal devoted exclusively to Grape 

 Culture and Wine Making, the editors 

 are full}' aware that, to make such a 

 journal what it should be, a medium 

 for interchange of thought and ex- 

 perience of the grape growers of our 

 whole Country, it must be conducted 

 with the utmost impartiality. Our 

 Country is so largo, its climate and 

 soil so varied, that the experiences of 

 those, who follow the culture of the 

 grape in diiferent localities, must neces- 

 sarily differ greatly. While therefore, 

 we shall welcome with the same col'- 

 diality, contributions to our columns 

 from Ohio and the Lake Shore, as from 

 Missouri and Illinois ; from iSTew Yoi-k 



as from California ; we hope they will 

 be written with that charity for the 

 opinions of others, which can alone 

 make such an interchange of ideas 

 pleasant and really useful. Our aim 

 and object is the same in all parts of 

 the Country; namely the promotion 

 of grape culture and wine making, 

 until it has attained that degree of 

 perfection, of which wo think it is 

 capable. 



Missouri, by its central position, and 

 adaptability for grape culture, would 

 seem to be the proper place for a jour- 

 nal of this kind. But it is not a Mis- 

 souri Journal we wish to edit. Our 

 aim is a higher one. We wish to make 

 it an American Gi'ape Culturist, in 

 which every grape grower of this con- 

 tinent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 can find sometliiug useful which will 

 come directly home to him, and to 

 which each of them is cordially invited 

 to contribute his experience. 



The senior editor has already so 

 many pleasant acquaintances, personal 

 and by correspondence; so many have 



