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The Grape Culturist. 



gi'owers could but feel at being thus 

 summarily cut off from their former 

 associates, they desire nothing so 

 much as to see the former relations 

 of an associated effort on the part of 

 grape growers on the entire length of 

 the Lake Shore restored. 



William Griffith, 

 A. S. Moss, 

 Wilson King, 

 John E. Mottier, 

 I. H. Babcock, 

 E. C. Bliss, 

 Edward F. Underhill, 

 Robert Evans. 



[The foregoing address was sent ui 

 by the chairman of the Committee 

 We are glad to notice their efforts 

 and trust that similar associationi 

 will soon be formed in cver}^ sectioi 

 where grape growing has become om 

 of the leading interests. If simila 

 associations will send us their pro 

 ceedings, they will always be we] 

 comed to our columns as importan 

 assistants to the common cause. — Ed. 



THE RULANDER AND ITS WINE. 



SUMMKHFIELD, ST. CLAIK COUN'TY, ILLS . , } 



May, 18Gi). i 



In the April number of the Grape 

 Culturist, Mr. Husmann asks why a 

 grape of one and the same variety 

 (species) could make a "Hock" Avine 

 in one locality, and produce a different 

 wine in another? 



Before we enter into this question we 

 ask, What is the origin of the Avord 

 "Hock?" Mr. Husmann seems not to 

 be acquainted with it. The English 

 tourists on the banks of the Rhine pre- 

 ferred "the Iloehheimer" to all other 

 wines. Its deep yellow color, its body, 

 and more pronounced "bouquet," besides 

 its other qualities, made it a favorite 

 with those travelers. And, as they 

 could never learn to pronounce the 

 deep German guttural "ch," they pro- 

 nounced it ck; and so first "Hock-eimer," 

 and at last abbreviated to " Hock." 

 " Hock " and '' Rhine-wine " ^oas, and 

 partially is, in England identical. Now 

 to meet Mr; llusmann's question. 



The Trollinger vine, brought from 

 Italj' to Germany, furnishes in its native 

 land, under a hotter sun, and on the 



''Terra di Lavora," a strong, purph 

 fiery wine ; in Venaissin (Veltelin), 

 milder, sweet, delicious wine, and i 

 Wurtembui'g the well-known " Scbilh 

 and Neckar wine." 



The Rulander wine (Pineau) in Bui 

 gundy, is as different from the wine c 

 the same grape in the Champagne a 

 that of the same grape at the Moselle 

 and the wine from the same grap 

 pressed in Asmannshausen, is differer 

 from that of Ingelheim, and of Apper 

 thai, near Offenburg, and of Zell, in th 

 southern part of Baden. 



The Rulander acclimatized for 

 longer period on Lake Pontchartrai 

 will show a different type from the sam 

 vine acclimatized under a more norther 

 latitude. 



Without entering farther into th 

 question — without pointing to the vari( 

 ties of Avheat, and, in the animal kin^ 

 dom, to hens, dogs, etc. — we direct fo 

 full infoi'mation in regard to the anamoi 

 phosis and metamorphosis of plants 

 etc., to Darwin's celebrated Avork. 



Fr. Hecker. • 



