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sold in the latter country is said to amount to tlis sum of $500,000,000, 

 annuall}'. American labor, enterprise and climate are as capable of pro- 

 ducing the same amount of wine annuaUy as those of France, and I doubt 

 not the time is not far distant when the X,'nited States, with her gigantic 

 mountains, broad and noble rivers, her vast and rolling Prairies, (afford- 

 ing the greatest facilities for the cultivation of the vine, of any country on 

 the fiice of the globe,) will produce a gveiiter amount of wine than all the 

 other countries in \\\Q worhl. The vine has been cultivated from the re- 

 motest period of time, and the time-honored custom of using its juice as a 

 beverage will never be discontinued. Wine made from the pure juice of 

 the grape — containing from seven to eight per cent, of Alcohol, equaling 

 in delicacy of flavor any other drink, will become the companion of our 

 advanced civilization, until every American can sit under his own vino, 

 cat the fruits thereof, and produce his own beverage. The manufacture 

 of native wine and the extensive cultivation of the grape are destined to 

 add millions to our wealth, and " Temperance" to the character of our 

 people. 



The first vineyards establL-^hed in America were projected hy German 

 and French settlers, at Vevaj^ and New Harmony, Ind., and Lexington, 

 Ky., about the year 1812. Their descendants still cultivate the giape to 

 a moderate extent. The cultivation of the grape and the manufacture of 

 wine is yet only in its infi^iucy, and there are already planted in the vi- 

 cinity of Cincinnati over ten thou:-'and acres of mostly Isabella and Cataw- 

 ba vines, which varieties, including the Schuylkill, are considered the 

 best for productiveness and for wine making. The region of country bor- 

 dering on the Ohio has become so celebrated as a wine-producing district, 

 that the Ohio is called the Rhine of America. Notwithstanding the fact 

 that the borders of the Ohio have taken the lead in the cultivation of the 

 grape, that section is not the only one where success may be had in the 

 production of this desirable fruit. The banks of the Hudson, the Dela- 

 ware, Schuylkill and Connecticut Rivers, will one day be as celebrated 

 for the growing of the grape as the banks of the Rhine, the Seine and Loire. 



By far the largest grape cultivator in this country is Mr. Nicholas 

 LoNGW'OETH, of Cincinnati, in fact he may be said to l^e the father of the 

 grape cultivation and wine manufacture. Mr. LoA'GwoRTir has several 

 hundred acres under cultivation with the grape. His mode of operating 

 is, to farm out his land to French and German vine dressers, giving them 

 a certain share of the crop, and then purchasing their part of the fruit. 

 3Ir. Loxcr WORTH manufactures the best quality of wine, and bottles every 

 year more than any other cultivator in this coxmtrj'. It is stated that he 



