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ther up or down on the same side, it may succeed but 

 poorly, or not at all. It can not be determined with cer- 

 tainty, from any condition of soil, or climate, or exposure, 

 whether or not a given locality is adapted to the grape ; 

 it can be known positively only by trial. And even if one 

 variety is not successful, another may be completely so. 

 The Hartford Prolific is not highly esteemed in Northern 

 Ohio. It is considered a good grape in Pennsylvania, but 

 reaches perfection only in Missouri. Location has such 

 an influence, thata variety produced in one locality would 

 hardly be recognized as the same grape when grown in 

 another locality, although the care and treatment might 

 have been the same. 



The grape is successfully cultivated from Maine to Cal- 

 ifornia ; but east of tlie Kocky Mountains it has become 

 a prominent business only in a comparatively few locali- 

 ties, of which perhaps the most prominent are Hermann, 

 Cincinnati, shore and islands of Lake Erie, and Pleasant 

 Valley, in New York. 



LAKE ERIE GRAPE REGION. 



In the Lake Erie region, perhaps the most successful 

 vineyards are on Kelly's Island, about ten miles from San- 

 dusky. The soil is a clayey loam,' somewhat inclined to 

 be heavy, and more or less abounding in lime, the whole 

 island being underlaid with limestone rock. It is only a 

 few years since grape-growing began to attract the atten- 



