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palates, such as Dr. Grant and Mr. Mead, with supreme contempt and dis- 

 gust ? Surely the Concord would have to be banished from the list for 

 " the whole country." 



The Catawba. — Surely it could not compete ; for it is not " uniformly 

 and perfectly healthy, hardy, and productive," but just the reverse, and 

 will not ripen in the North-eastern States. 



27ie Norton s Virgmia. — Healthy, hardy, and productive as that noble 

 grape undoubtedly is here, and glorious as its wine is, it will hardly do 

 North ; and I would not care much to be regaled with wine from it, grown 

 in a location where the summers are two months shorter than they are 

 here. So that will not do. 



Ives's Seedling has hardly been tested outside of Ohio, consequently 

 could not " come in," and is, I candidly believe, much overrated even in 

 Ohio. 



The Delaware will very likely make a drinkable wine all over the 

 country, where it can be grown ; but these locations are "like angels' visits, 

 — few, and far between." It is any thing but "perfectly healthy, hardy, 

 and productive;" nor will it make wine of "sufficient quantity." So the 

 Delaware would have no chance. 



The lona has hardly been tested at all for wine-purposes, and is, with 

 the exception of a few localities where it may succeed, perfectly ?/;?healthy, 

 z^^hardy, and ^///productive ; would not stand the ghost of a chance. 



The Herbemont will make a splendid wine here ; is healthy and pro- 

 ductive ; but would not make a drinkable wine at the North, where it will 

 not ripen, and is not hardy enough to meet the requirements. 



Here we have the most prominent of the probable candidates. We 

 have a host of other excellent wine-grapes ; but they have not been 

 sufficiently tested, and are perhaps, like the others, only adapted to pecu- 

 liar localities. 



In short, we have no wine-grape for the 7uholc country ; nor do I think it 

 likely that we shall ever have one which will meet all the requirements in 

 every location throughout this vast territory. Laudable as is the spirit which 

 actuates these men, and generous as their offer undoubtedly is, they are 

 asking impossibilities, and will thereby defeat and hinder the veiy object 

 they wish to promote. No committee, however competent and just, can make 



