Becollections. 



rience plainly contradicts this, for in- 

 stance, in vegetable or animal extracts 

 obtained by heat, malt or grain wort, 

 saccharine juices, crude oils, fats, etc. 

 Nor do these and other substances 

 containing gluten or albumen acquire 

 stability by mere heating; if, after 

 cooling, the germs of micoderms in 

 in the air find access, they cause fer- 

 mentation or decay, as long as they 

 find albumenous parts to feed upon. 

 These however removed, no micoder- 

 mic action can take place, and stabil- 

 ity is imparted. It thus becomes 

 plain that all manipulations and pro- 

 cesses for the preservation of organic 

 matter should go towards freeing them 

 from the albumenous parts, otherwise 

 they remain imperfect and unreliable. 

 The alcohol of wine is more in- 

 clined to turn into acetic acid the less 

 alcohol is present, and the larger the 



proportion of gluten. Thoroughly 

 fermented wine generally contains but 

 little gluten, so that the heating pro- 

 cess (to 121°-131° P. to kill the mi- 

 coderms) as a rule forms a protection ; 

 however, if not previously fermented 

 dry, the wine will remain sweet, for 

 no known process but fermentation 

 alternates the sugar. 



In accordance with the foregoing, 

 wine freed from gluten by air-treat- 

 ment should have received full pro- 

 tection against future disturbance, and 

 the results obtained corroborate the 

 assumption ; not only after but dui'ing 

 fermentation, a security is obtained 

 which heretofore was wanting, this 

 most important part of all wine mak- 

 ing, the fermentation, placed under the 

 control of time. 



(.To le continued.) 



EECOLLECTIONS. 



BY FR. MUENCH. 



I was greatl}' rejoiced at finding in 

 the January number of the Grape 

 CuLTURiST, two communications from 

 our old and venerable friend, I. B. 

 Garbei-. In writing these few lines, 

 I intend to send him my heartiest 

 greetings and most friendly wishes 

 from the far West. 1 shall never for- 

 get the day (it vras during the Fre- 

 mont campaign, in the fall of 1856,) 

 when I called at his charming country- 



seat, not far from Lancaster, Pa., and 

 for the first time met him eye to eye, 

 and shall ever remember the broth- 

 erly kindness with which he received 

 and treated me. He showed me what 

 he had achieved in his younger years, 

 and Avhat ho was still aiming at in his 

 old age. Wo discussed the grape 

 question ; it was just the time when 

 the excitement, caused by Mr. Long- 

 worth's success with the Catawba, was 



