PKEFACE TO FIFTH EDITION, 



IN preparing the present edition for the press, I have 

 made such additions to the work as still further experi- 

 ence has suggested, and have introduced a chapter on 

 an aspect of vine-culture which of late has been much 

 canvassed in the pages of the horticultural press. 



I am much gratified with the reception this little 

 work on the Vine has met with, and much more so 

 with the evidence that reaches me from all parts of the 

 country, that hundreds of amateurs have by its aid 

 alone become most successful grape-growers. Thus my 

 chief object in writing it is realised. 



WM. THOMSON. 

 DALKBITH PARK, June 22, 1867. 



