The CuUivatkm of the Gntpe. 



put up last j-car 250,000 bottles. He lias one of the largest -uine cellars 

 in the United States, being 45 feet in depth, and capable of holding sev- 

 eral millions of bottles. lie thinks the deeper wine is kept below the. 

 surface of the earth the less liable the wine is to suffer from change o^ 

 temperature ; thus assisting time to ripen its flavor and delicacy. 



The borders of the Hudson can also boast of some fair sized vineyards, 

 among the prominent ones are Dr. A. T. T^ndkuiiili/s, at Croton Point; 

 Messrs. Yoouhiks k Sneidtkek's, at Nyack, and Dr. Grant's, at lona, a 

 ])eautiful Islet in the Hudson, nearly opposite St. Anthony's Nose.* 



It is said oyer four thousand dollars' worth of grapes were sold from 

 about five thousand vines, four years transplanted on this Island. It ia 

 also .stated another large cultivator's sales from fruit alone, grown upon the 

 Hud-son, and mostly Isabella grapes, amounted to over $18,000. We have, 

 ^hus shown that the cultivation of the grape is profitable, much more so 

 than almost any other crop, and it only remains for the intelligent man, 

 who cultivates even the smallest plot of ground, to enquire where he can 

 plant a vineyard, what varieties he must plant, what preparation he must 

 give his soil, where he can obtain his vines, and how they must be culti- 

 vated. 



Grapes eanjipt be grown north of latitude 43, with an}- degree of suc- 

 cess : but they thris-e well, and in some, aspects vines grow to an enormous 

 height and extent, from this latitiuic to the Gulf of Mexico. Native vines 

 are found growing in the primitive state on the banks of the Ohio, some, 

 of them nearly three hundred feet in length, and yet growing with all 

 their pristine vigor. The Scuppernong grape, f«)und wild from A'irginia 

 to Florida, is xmdoubtedly the most rapid growing and most productive of 

 all native grapes, and can be cultivated with the least care and attention, 

 but the wine made from this grape is inferior to Isabella or Catawba wine. 

 The only profitable varieties of grape for wine manufacturing purposes 

 and for out door cultivation, are the Catawba, (which produces the finest 

 of all wines,) the Isabella, Diana, Schuylkill, and Muscadine, (Northern,), 

 as gi-own by the New Lebanon Shakers. The writer saw last winter, 1854, 

 several specimens of wine made from this grape containing only altout five 

 per cent of alcohol, and it is one of the finest light table wines, with perhaps 

 the exception of Longwokth's Ladies' Catawba, nianufiictured in tin? 



*Tlip writer still remembers with pleasure a visit made with some friends to Ihif 

 beautil'iil I.sle tlie past siinuucr. The Golden Apricot, and rnddy cheel<ed Necta- 

 rine were. jnst ripenin.c:. The youn.ij; and thriftj' Pear orchard Mas bending- Mifh 

 golden fruit, and the large vineyard of Catavvbas were lit-crally Irailinp: npon the 

 i>TOund with their enormous crops of fruit. It was never my fortune to sec a finer, 

 kept orchard or vineyard. 



