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for some hours in water, to refresh them previously to plant- 

 ing. You can then proceed to plant them in the places de- 

 signed for them, which may either be in nursery rows, 

 whence they can be transplanted afterwards to the places 

 finally allotted to them, or at once into their permanent situa- 

 tions. If intended for a vineyard, they should be planted at the 

 distance of six feet each way, after the ground has been pro- 

 perly prepaired ; from two to three scions should be set in 

 each place thus laid out, the uppermost bud of the scion alone 

 to remain above ground and I consider it preferable, that 

 two scions should be left to grow, and the third, if it should not 

 fail, (which there is fair reasons to suppose it may,) can be 

 transplanted or destroyed. By planting an extra number of 

 scions, you secure yourself against the injury resulting from 

 failure, and you increase the chance of a successful growth 

 three to one ; and the value of the extra scions is nothing, 

 when compared with the time that might be lost, and the 

 disappointment that often ensues, from planting single scions. 



Produce of Vineyards. . 



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The estimated quantity of wine produced in France, an- 

 nually, is 10 millions of casks, averaging 60 gallons each, 

 which is computed to occupy two millions of arpentsof land. 

 Much of this land is of a very inferior quality, being sides of 

 hills, gravelly soils, Sec. ; in fact, such as, in many cases, 

 would be unsuitable for other culture. This quantity of 

 wine, valued at 50 francs (about SlO the cask or hogshead, 

 would amount to a sum three times as great as the medium 

 value of the whole cotton crop of the United States for the 

 years 1818 or 1819. When, in connexion with these reflec- 

 tions, we consider, as Americans, how much tribute we at 

 present pay to foreign nations in the purchase of wines; 

 when those equally good, and yielding equal profit to the 

 cultivator, can without doubt be produced within our own 

 country ; when, in fact, a small portion only of the lands that 

 now lie useless and uncultivated, could be made by attention 

 to save to the nation not only the immense sums at present 

 paid for the importations, but, by the culture being suffi- 

 ciently extended, might render it an article whose exporta- 

 tion could be made a source of revenue to our country, not 

 even secondary to our export of cotton. To what conclu- 

 sions does it not irresistibly bring the mind. Much stress 

 has been laid on the circumstance of particular soils, and 



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