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The Grape Uulturist. 



EDITOE'S LETTER BOX. 



El Dorado, March loth, 1870. 



Geo. Hcsjiann, Esq., Editor of Grape 

 Culturist, St. Louis, Mo : 



Bear Sir: — I enclose you one more 

 article lor in}- favorite ; shall trouble 

 you no more unless it be to give 3'ou 

 some account of my success or failure, 

 which I suppose you would like to know. 



I read the Grape Culturist with 

 great interest and wish it success. But 

 think as hinted in the article, that it 

 should embrace our whole country, and 

 give all kinds of grapes a fair and 

 thorough trial and then condemn. 



I enclosed 3'ou §2.00 for the Grape 

 Cui/ruRiST some three weeks back, and 

 stated I wanted two laborers, for which 

 I would give $200 per year eacli and 

 rations, wanted one of them to have a 

 family, and would furnish house and 

 garden, I prefer those haying some 

 knowledge of J^'arming, as they might 

 make support when not at work in the 

 vineyard. Should they wish to go into 

 partnership as proposed, all right, if 

 not, I pay them an}' how. 



Very respectfully, J. H. Carletox. 



[We will publish 3'our article as soon 

 as we can find room for it, but /nust 

 request you, for the sake of our readers, 

 to be less prosy, and more to the point. 

 You seem to think we have a personal 

 animosity against the Scuppernong, 

 when we have not, but from the testi- 

 mony we have been able to gather, we 

 have been forced to the conclusion, that 

 it is only the best now, because no better 

 has been sufficiently tried. We desire 

 improvement, North and South, every- 

 where in the countiy, and this end 

 cannot be gained by l)elieving that we 

 already have the best we can get. If 

 you or any one else, can send us a sam- 

 ple of Scuppernong wine, made without 

 the addition of spirits, stating at the 

 same time how it was made, we would 



much like to taste it, and can assure 

 you, that we will give an unbiassed 

 opinion of its (jualit}'. 



We have no men at command, sucli 

 as you desire, but perhaps if you, and 

 others irt the same predicament, would 

 advertise your "wants" in the Grape 

 Culturist, suitable men might see it, 

 and avail themselves of the opportunity 

 thus offered. We receive many such 

 applications, from all parts of the coun- 

 try, and man}' of the writers seem to 

 think it our duty to search tiie country 

 for grape growers to suit them. We 

 are always willing to oblige, as far as 

 we are able, but ours is such a busy life, 

 that we can neither find the time, nor 

 can we afford it, to attend to all their 

 wants gratis, postage, paper and time 

 included. 



If you favor us with any more com- 

 munications, we would also request, 

 that you mind 30ur p's and (I's some- 

 what ; it is not very pleasant to be com- 

 pelled to make a dot over every i, and 

 to add a comma to every period, in a 

 communication of six or eight pages, 

 to make it legible or intelligible to our 

 readers. — Editor.] 



[We have several inquiries from 

 correspondents about prices of wines; 

 and, as tbey all touch on the same 

 question, we will answer them to- 

 gether. 



The price of wine is dependent upon 

 a good man}' points. Among those, 

 we will name, first of all, quality, 

 good color, brilliancy, perfectly mar- 

 ketable condition, the market in which 

 it is offered, the variety of grapes 

 from which it was made, and the 

 quantity sold. All these points have 



