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The Grape Culturlst. 



red wine, and. should it prove suc- 

 cessful, will rank high among wine- 

 grapes.' " 



We copy the annexed cut and descrip- 

 tion from the Catalogue of Isidor Bush 

 &, Son. What we have been able to 

 gather about its health and growing pro- 

 pensities throughout the country, seems 

 to be favorable, and although we can 

 not say any thing about it from personal 



experience, we are determined to give 

 it a fair trial, and would advise our 

 readers to do so, on a limited scale. It 

 seems to belong to the southern division 

 of the Aestivalis class, of which we have 

 already so man}- valuable grapes, and of 

 which the Herbemont may be considered 

 the type. Its foliage seems to have been 

 good the last very tr3ing season, v\^hich 

 is a favorable indication, Ed. 



D'HEUEEUSE AIR TEEATMENT. 



( Gonchided . ) 



It is obvious, that must de[)rived of 

 gluten (what no other known process 

 accomplishes) in the hot state as ex- 

 plained, like any other extract, may be 

 subsequentl}' concentrated (without the 

 addition of sugar or anj'thing else) ; 

 kept in casks on draught as preserve, 

 confectionery, or maj^ be emplo3'ed as 

 addition in wine-making in distant parts 

 to produce greater varieties of wine at 

 any place. Enormous quantities of thus 

 purified concentrated must from Cali- 

 fornia, or other Southern grapes, of 

 little bouquet and much sugar, could 

 be more profitably employed to blend 

 with green musts of Northern strong 

 flavored grapes, poor in sugar, than 

 turning either separately into wine. 



CENTRALIZATION IN WINE INDUSTRY. 



If we recall to mind numerous home 

 manufactures only a few generations 

 back — for instance, the flax grovvn on 

 the family field, spuu by the family, 

 woven on the family (heir) loom, and 



takeu periodicall}^ to market to be 

 b-old — we wonder at the slow, tedious, 

 penny-wise business, that aimed to do 

 all the work but earned little. Mills 

 now buy the flax, and sell the linen to 

 the dealers. All other industries came 

 to be remodelled in the same manner ; 

 producers, manufacturers and dealers 

 are distinctly separated, to make it 

 pay ; and still we see wine men adhera 

 to the primitive policy in wine making. 

 Certainly as long as wines had to be 

 stored several years to be ready for 

 shipping, the excuse was not unfounded 

 tiiat tlic investments required of dis- 

 trict establishments were enormous. 

 Air-treatment, however, annihilates 

 this oV)jection, permits the cellars to be 

 cleared a few months after vintage, to 

 be i-ead}' for next season. Central wine 

 ;.re3S-]iouses in grape growing districts, 

 are bound t(* be profitable, to take 

 before long the place of the numerous 

 small press-houses, purchase grapes by 

 contract for 3'ears ahead, and a few 

 months after vinta2;e turn over their 



