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- sub-soil is a stiff clay, retentive of moisture. These 

 localities will, I fear, be always subject to rot, and yet 

 the vineyards will be found more profitable than any 

 other crop. To persons having a porous soil, I would 

 recommend the cultivation of the Ilerbemont grape. It 

 is a fine grape both for the table and for wine, and per- 

 fectly hardy. It makes wine of superior quality, simi- 

 lar to the Spanish Manzanilla, or Mansinsella, as it is 

 generally pronounced. This grape has a soft pulp, and 

 resembles the best foreign table grapes. Lick Run, in 

 our immediate vicinity, will make one of the most beau- 

 tiful rural spots in the world. - It will soon be a con- 

 tinuous line of vineyards. I wish some of our poets 

 would visit it in May or June, and give it a more beau- 

 tiful and appropriate name. They may rack their 

 brains for months, and not find one worthy of the scene. 

 It is different on Mount Adams, which is in a double 

 sense in connection with the heavens — its height and 

 proximity to the great Telescope of Professor Mitchel. 

 The highest street is called Celestial Street. Command- 

 ing as the view is, the name surely equals it. 



"I have just returned, from a visit to the vineyard of 

 Mr. Langdon, on the bottom of the Little Miami, eight 

 miles above the city, in a sandy soil. That porous, soil 

 is not subject to the rot in grapes is exemplified here. 

 His misfortune is, in faet, too large a crop of fruity an 

 unusual complaint this season. Yet he will have a poor 

 vintage, arising from two causes, which prevent the fruit 

 from ripening. The first and least cause is too much 

 fruit, from leaving too much bearing wood. There was 

 more than the vine could give a supply of sap for, in a 

 favorable season. The second and great cause is the 

 same as at the vineyard of Mr. Duhme. The fruit has no 



