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instance, look at Westborough, in this State, or many other 

 towns in the vicinity of cities which formerly raised a great 

 variety of crops, but which are now almost entirely devoted to 

 the production of milk or vegetables. Other cultivators near 

 the market have devoted their attention to the apple, the pear, 

 the grape, the strawberry and other fruits, which they raise in 

 great perfection, and with satisfactory profit ; and from the 

 exhibition of to-day, we see no reason why Hampshire county 

 may not make the cultivation of fruit as profitable as any other 

 branch of farming. 



A gentleman of our acquaintance raises and sells annually in 

 the market of one of our commercial cities, a large quantity of 

 native grapes, at prices so satisfactory, as already to have in- 

 duced in him a resolve to plant vineyards near all the principal 

 cities of our country. The cultivation of foreign grapes is 

 carried on extensively in the vicinity of Boston. One cultiva- 

 tor produces annually five thousand pounds; another four 

 thousand, and the whole crop in that neighborhood is estimated 

 at more than forty thousand pounds, or twenty tons. The 

 fame of the domestic wine, manufactured from native grapes 

 in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, is co-extensive with the 

 land. From the Secretary of the American Wine Growers As- 

 sociation, Dr. Warder, we have been favored with the following 

 information. There are about one thousand acres now devoted 

 to the culture of the grape for wine within twenty miles of that 

 city. The profits are estimated at one hundred dollars to one 

 hundred and fifty dollars per acre in a series of ten years, — 

 the present crop at fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars annu- 

 ally ; and the prospective crop, at one hundred to two hundred 

 thousand dollars per annum. The President of the Cincinnati 

 Horticultural Society writes us, that the cultivation of the vine 

 is no longer confined to that region ; but is extending with 

 rapidity up and down the Ohio, and in the interior, and is 

 attracting the attention of their most enterprising and intel- 

 ligent citizens ; some in the hope that it will be the means 

 of lessening intemperance, and in which hope I most sincerely 

 concur. 



A gentleman who makes the cultivation of the strawberry 



