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IN submitting to the public the following pages, the author 

 is aware that he is promulgating principles and modes of prac. 

 tice with reference to the culture of the Vine, that are some, 

 what at variance with commonly received notions. 



It may not, therefore, be altogether unnecessary for him to 

 observe, that he has not recommended any point of culture or 

 particular routine of practice, the merits and advantages of 

 which he has not, himself, for years repeatedly and carefully 

 tested. 



The object which the author has in view in the present pub- 

 lication, is, again to contribute what little assistance he has it 

 in his power to render, towards improving the culture of the 

 Vine, and placing it on a firm and certain basis, by the diffu- 

 sion of those sound and definite principles, which are the never- 

 failing offspring of carefully acquired experimental knowledge. 

 Shirley Vineyard, Southampton, 

 July, 1844. 



