ADVERTISEMENT, 



In submitting to the public the following pages, 

 the author is aware that he is promulgating principles 

 and modes of practice, with reference to the culture 

 of the Vine, that are somewhat at variance with 

 commonly received notions. 



It may not, therefore, be altogether unnecessary 

 for him to observe, that he has not recommended any 

 point of culture or particular routine of practice, the 

 merits and advantages of which he has not, himself, 

 for years repeatedly and carefully tested. 



The object which the author has in view in the 

 present publication, is, again to contribute what little 

 assistance he has it in his power to render, towards 

 improving the culture of the Vine, and placing it on 

 a firm and certain basis, by the diffusion of those 

 sound and definite principles, which are the never- 

 failing offspring of carefully acquired experimental 

 knowledsfe. 



Shirley Vineyard, Southampton, 

 July, 1844. 



