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report. The must of your grapes 

 weighed remarkably well, and you 

 have every reason to expect a good 

 wine from it. We can only hope your 

 kind wishes will be fulfilled, and shall 

 do our best to deserve the good will 

 and wishes of our readers. — Ed.] 



Geo. Husmann, Esq. : 



Dear Sir: My grapes have done 

 well this season, that is, Concord and 

 Norton's Virginia ; the former rotted 

 some on older vines, but averaged 

 eight and one-third pounds to the 

 vine of well-matured grapes. Nor- 

 ton's Virginia had a good crop, 

 without the least disease. Ilerbe- 



mont did not set the fruit well, and 

 gave a light return in consequence. 

 Catawba I have rooted up. Delaware 

 does not succeed well — shall try 

 Maxatawney in its place. I have a 

 number of other leading kinds which 

 will fruit in 1S70, and am anxious to 

 see the result. Will try to get up a 

 small club of subscribers here to the 

 Culturist for 1870. 

 Eespectfully, 



C. T. Mallinckrodt. 



[Thanks for your report, and kind 

 exertions in our behalf. We hope 

 many may follow your example. — 

 Ed.] 



TO THE GRAPE GROWING PUBLIC. 



This number will end the first volume 

 of the Grape Culturist. Whether it 

 is to be counted among the " permanent 

 institutions" of the land remains for 

 you to decide. It remains for you to 

 say whether the grape growers of the 

 country need a separate organ of their 

 views and experiences, or whether they 

 will be content with the space allotted 

 to them in the horticultural and agri- 

 cultural journals of the country. As 

 to ourselves, we can only say, that we 

 were, and still are, convinced of the 

 necessity of such an exponent of your 

 views, and we know that hundreds of 

 our most intelligent grape growers con- 

 cur with us in this. 



We have tried hard to make the Grape 

 Culturist the faithful representative of 

 them ; each and all of you have had, we 



think, a fair and impartial hearing in 

 our columns, and if we can place any 

 reliance on the many flattering com- 

 mendations we daily receive, we have 

 succeeded as well as could be expected. 

 We have known no South or North, 

 East or West, but have published all 

 the information we could gather; our 

 proudest and most prominent aim has 

 been to be an exponent of the views of 

 " Our whole country, one and indivis- 

 ible," as far and wide as the noble 

 grape is cultivated. 



It remains for you to say whether it 

 is to continue, and whether you think 

 it in safe hands. If not, the sooner it 

 ceases to exist the better, and we would 

 be the last to stand in the way of any 

 one who can more fittingly fill the edi- 

 torial chair of a similar Journal than 



