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The Graye Culturist. 



ments have led us to the knowledge 

 that not only the inferior classes of 

 must are benefited by rational im- 

 provement, but is to a certain degree 

 applicable to every must, it is no lon- 

 ger proper to call it gallizlng or petio- 

 tizing. Dr. Gall himself admitted, 

 just before his death, that his method 



had been excelled b}* that of Petiot, 

 and even the latter has been excelled 

 by the later discoveries of organic 

 chemistry. Has not the art of brew- 

 ing also gone through innumerable 

 changes and improvements, and is 

 wine making less a science than it ? 



( To be continued) 



GRAPES IN CANADA— GROWIXG HARD WOOD VARIETIES FROM 



CUTTINGS. 



CiTYEXGINEEK'S OPFlf'E, } 



HA3III.T0N, Ont., Canada, Feb. 18, 1870. S 



George Husmann, Esq. : 



Dear Sir : — I am much pleased with 

 3'our journal on grapes and wine, 

 which I would not be without for 

 three times its cost. I have read 

 most, if not all, your published Avrit- 

 ings on grapes and wine, and look 

 upon you as our best authority. 



Parties living so far south as Mis- 

 souri, may fancy growing grapes in 

 Canada unprofitable, but such is not 

 the case, as we have a very good 

 grape region here on the south shore 

 of Lake Ontario, between this city 

 and the Niagara river, where we are 

 raising and maturing fine crops from 

 all varieties not quite so late as the 

 Catawba. 



The Concord, Delaware, Rebecca, 

 lona, Rogers' Hybrids, &c., do re- 

 markably well. Very generally we 

 have no frost to injure the vine foliage 

 before the 20th of October, last year 

 being an exception to previous years, 

 and leaf blight or any other disease 

 is so far unknown here. 



By reference to the December num- 

 ber of Tilton's Journal, you will find 

 I was awarded two first prizes at the 

 show of the Lake Shore Grape Grow- 



ers' Association of Western New 

 York for grapes grown here last 

 season, viz. : " The best white grape 

 for the table " — Rebecca ; and " The 

 Clinton.'" 



As you, in so kind a manner, invite 

 contributions to your valuable jour- 

 nal, I submit a receipt by which I 

 have been most successful in propa- 

 gating the Delaware and other varie- 

 ties, and by which I believe good 

 plants might also be made from cut- 

 tings of 3'our "Norton^' and " Cyn- 

 thiana " varieties, said to be quite as 

 diflScult to strike as the Delaware, 

 if not more so. 



Make two eye cuttings during the 

 fall or winter, in the usual way, from 

 well ripened, one year old wood, with 

 a sharp knife, and not ivith shears on 

 any accoinit. Pack the cuttings in 

 sand, in a cool cellar, and don't re- 

 move them until the vines out doors 

 are in leaf. Then dig a trench in 

 well cultivated soil, in an easterly 

 and westerly direction, which fill 

 with sand, and in this set the cuttings 

 close together. Consolidate with 

 your feet, and mulch slightly with 

 saw dust, tan bark, rubbish, straw, or 

 leaves. Have j^repared two boards. 



