Editor's Preface. 



public, there will, no doubt, be some that are eminently fitted 

 for our cultivation. The great difficulty will soon be to make 

 a judicious selection of those we wish to plant. 



In reference to this subject, Mr. T. S. KENNEDY, President 

 of the Kentucky Horticultural Society remarks : " Grape 

 culture in this country is infinitely more profitable than it is 

 in Europe, where from a single species more than two thou- 

 sand good varieties have been produced, and upwards of four 

 hundred of them are now cultivated in France and Spain 

 exclusively for wine."* He supports his statement by the 

 following statistics, taken from Harasthy's work. 



THE AVERAGE WINE PRODUCTION OF EUROPE REDUCED 

 TO AMERICAN ACRES AND GALLONS. 



The aggregate number of acres under vine culture in 

 Europe is 12,285,780. 



The total average yield of wine per year is 3,107,039,000 

 gallons. 



The wines, at twenty-five cents per gallon, are worth, total 

 annual value, $776,759,750. 



* " Western Ruralist," Louisville, Ky., Vol. I, No. i. April, 1867. 

 f Of these 714,000,000 gallons, Hungary produces some 450,000,000. 



