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those most highly esteemed for wine. In fact, viewing the 

 introduction of the vine to be an object of national import- 

 ance, I have, regardless of extra expense, and extra trouble, 

 obtained the different varieties under such circumstances, 

 and from such localities, as I considered calculated to ren- 

 der the most permanent benefit to the country at large. 



Concluding Remarks. 



It is a subject of gratulation that the public attention 

 seems so fully drawn to the culture of the grape. It 

 was not till after immense difficulties that the grape was 

 brought to its present state of successful culture in France ; 

 and it should be no cause for discouragement, if some expe- 

 riments are made in this country without the anticipated 

 success. In fact, so many causes exist "/here an error in 

 judgment, or the want of the necessary information, may 

 produce a failure, that it would be a miracle if all were to 

 succeed. Already, for years, has the vine been most suc- 

 cessfully cultivated on the Rhine ; and in latitude 50 de- 

 grees, the most choice Rhenish wines are made. Recent 

 accounts tell us of vineyards having been successfully esta- 

 blished in the more northern parts of Germany, and in high 

 latitudes in Russia; and the Swiss have been, for a course 

 of years, most plentifully supplied with wine from their own 

 soil. Shall, then, America alone be debarred from this, 

 one of the bountiful gifts of nature ? Shall a country, pos- 

 sessing every variety of climate which is combined in all the 

 wine countries of Europe, and extending through all the 

 degrees of latitude which are there deemed the most genial 

 to its growth and produce, be said to be totally inappro- 

 priate to its success ? Shall it be said that a plant, which 

 culture has accommodated to almost every other clime to 

 which it has been introduced, can find no spot whereon to 

 flourish, in a country extending from the 25th to the 47th 

 degree of latitude, and that we can boast no such congenial 

 soil in an empire, whose bounds are the St. Lawrence and 

 the Gulf of Mexico, and whose settlements already extend 

 from the shores of the Atlantic to the sources of the Mis- 

 souri ? It is high time such delusions of blinded theorists 

 should give way to the lights of reason and of judgment, and 

 that the culture of the vine, to every -variety of which we 

 have a soil and climate suitable to offer, should assume that 

 importance to which it has already attained in countries pos- 



