PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. 



Professor George Husmann, the author of this Volume, is the 

 recognized authority on grape growing and wine making in the 

 United States. His reputation has likewise extended all over 

 Europe. When grape growing met with its disastrous collapse 

 twelve or fifteen years ago, a few bore up under the sad reverses 

 and labored on, hoping for better times. Of this number was Pro- 

 fessor Husmann, who had then become prominent in the culture 

 of the grape in that district of which Hermann, Missouri, is the 

 center. Though obliged to give up the vineyards he had estab- 

 lished, and to relinquish the publication of the Grape Gulturisf, a 

 most excellent monthly journal, he still continued to prosecute 

 his labors and investigations, which have been fitly recognized, 

 among other ways, by his appointment as Professor of Horticul- 

 ture in the Missouri State University. His first volume, published 

 some years since, attracted wide attention. He now embodies in 

 the present volume the results of all his labors and investigations 

 down to the present time. 



In order to adapt the work to every latitude, the author embodies 

 the methods and opinions of eminent grape cultivators in all parts 

 of the country. Campbell, Bateham, and Kelley (of the famous 

 Kelley's Island), speak for Ohio. Cashin gives Maryland's experi- 

 ence. The author describes the noted vineyards of Crooked Lake, 

 New York. Onderdonk speaks for the pear-line climate of Texas, 

 and in this manner, including some of the most successful growers in 

 California, others than the author, tell their story, each for his own 

 locality. 



The work is a complete guide for novices in the culture of the 



Vine, and at the same time may be regarded as a summing up of 



everything of importance and value bearing upon this industry. 



^ Special attention is devoted to the Phylloxera, whose destruction of 



^' the roots of vines had very much to do in bringing on the collapse 



referred to above, and the destruction of the vineyards of France. 



The experiments and discoveries of Husmann and his associates in 



lJ5 connection with this destructive little insect, are, for the first time, 



Q} presented in this volume, and will prove of incalculable benefit to 



^^ the grape growing interests of this and other lands. 



The book is copiously illustrated with sketches from the author, 

 which add materially to its value. 

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