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Eastern States, against which the vineyardists did not then know 

 how to cope, while in California Phylloxera and the California vine 

 and other disease injuries wiped out thousands of acres. 



Past experiences have been such that many former enthusiasts 

 quit grape culture. This is why some sections of the country 

 formerly important grape sections are not growing so many grapes 

 now, although there are now new plantings made and decided 

 interest shown all along the line. While these experiences have 

 given sorrowful lessons to many, knowledge has also been gained 

 through them that could not have been obtained in any other way. 

 After years of successes and reverses, crop shortages and produc- 

 tions to exceed wants of the markets created, the industry in the 

 East, as well as in the West, has gradually settled down to a more 

 solid business basis. 



American grape products have taken high honors at all impor- 

 tant International Expositions, including the one at Paris in 1900; 

 they are not only rapidly replacing products of like nature formerly 

 imported from abroad, but our grape products are rapidly finding 

 their way into all the principal markets of the world. 



Viticulturists in the United States have come mostly from two 

 sources, namely: those born in this country, few of their ante- 

 cedents having followed viticulture, they therefore having it all 

 to learn, or, they are viticulturists from other countries, who after 

 coming here, find it more difficult to wean themselves from set 

 notions and adapt themselves to new conditions than beginners do 

 to learn the trade. 



Viticulture in the United States may at present be said to consist 

 of three distinct regions, which segregate themselves by the grape 

 species grown in them for commercial purposes. These are: 



(1) The Vinifera region, in which the Vinifera varieties are 

 grown for all the various purposes, is located almost entirely west 

 of the Rocky Mountains, and so much of it in California that it 

 might almost be said to be a California industry; at least 75 per 

 cent of the entire grape output of the United States for various 

 purposes being of Vinifera varieties. Nearly 100 per cent of the 

 raisins and grape brandies produced in this country come from 

 California. 



(2) The Muscadine region, in which improved varieties of 



