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ferent. Some of them appear only 

 when a considerable amount of alcohol 

 has already been developed, and others 

 already appear in the first stages of 

 fermentation, when but a small amount 

 of alcohol has been formed. This is 

 the cause that vari'^ties of fruit which 

 generally develop a great deal of bou- 

 (juet^ will develop but a small amount 

 if the mu>t or juic-e contains but little 

 sugar, and consequently developes but 

 little alcohol during fermentation. 



It is ditticult, sometimes, to make the 

 distinction between aromatic and bou- 

 quet wines, as some wines contain both. 

 We shall try to illustrate this by a few 

 examples, as follows : 



Wines made of the German Muscatell 

 grape, from raspberries, etc., are, gene- 

 rally speaking, aromatic wines, which 

 but very seldom also have bouquet. 

 Raspberr}' wine especially will retain 

 the full flavor of the fruit for several 

 years. 



An interesting example of the oppo- 

 site class is furnished us by wine made 



of strawberries, for although the aroma 

 of strawberries woidd appear as strong 

 in the fruit as that of the raspberry, 

 yet most of the varieties of strawber- 

 ries make a bouquet wine. The aroma 

 of this fruit is of such a character that 

 it changes entirely during fermenta- 

 tion, and hardly a trace of th.^ straw- 

 berry flavor remains. ' The aroma of 

 the fruit has disappeared, and bouquet 

 lias been developed in its place. 



Gooseberries furnish a wine without 

 bouquet, if the must contains less than 

 20*^ of sugar ; if the amount of sugar 

 is increased to 25°, hovvever, a strong 

 bouquet is developed. 



A yet more striking illustration we 

 find in the wine of the Morello cherry. 

 This fruit, which is entirely without 

 flavor in its fresh state, will make, even 

 when not fully lipe, a wine of remarka- 

 bly strong bouquet. We will now see 

 of what use these remarks will be to 

 us when we come to make wine from 

 American grapes. 



(To be continued.) 



GEO WING GRAPE CUTTINGS. 



Friend Husmann : — In the last 

 number of tho Gra^e Culturist you 

 published an article — an essay read 

 before the Northeast Missouri Horti- 

 cultural Society at a meeting of 

 theirs. 



Leaving all else out of the question, 

 I cannot refrain from making some 

 remarks upon his mode of growing 

 vines from cuttings. 



'Tis true he acknowledges that 

 plants from cuttings are simply ridic- 

 ulous; and I don't Avonder, when 



grown as he advises in the first place, 

 and the second plan is not much bet- 

 ter. 



To the initiated it will only create a 

 smile, whde to the beginner who knows 

 no better, it w^ill no doubt be looked 

 iipon as a marvelous j)iece of informa- 

 tion. Some one who has the means 

 wall no doubt tr}- the stewing process, 

 and, thi'ee chances to one, will make 

 a complete botch of it. 



The way avc propagate cuttings 

 here it would require us to charter a 



