40 CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



examination by the committee, in April, 1849, of the vintage of 

 1848, viz: fifty-one bottles of Cotawha wine. The silver cup was 

 awarded to T. H. Yeatman, and Certificates to Messrs. 

 LoNGwoRTH and Buchanan, for the second and third best. 

 The wines presented this year ^ve re pronounced "excellent," 

 for new wines. 



Samples of wine from Herbemont's Madeira Gra2:)e, Cape, 

 Minor's Seedling, Missouri, Ohio, Isabella, and Norton's 

 Seedling, were presented by Mr. Longworth, and were 

 ranked in quality by the judges, in the order here named. 



Report for 1846. "The committee on American Wine 

 having examined the specimens sent in to the Annual Exhi- 

 bition of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, held September 

 9th and 10th, beg leave to submit the following brief Report: 



" The number of specimens, although greater than at any 

 former Exhibition, was not as large as might have been an- 

 ticipated at this time, there being such an interest taken, and 

 the amount of capital so great invested, in the cultivation of 

 the vine, the annual product of which, in five years, cannot 

 be less than one hundred thousand dollars to this county 

 alone. In order to do ample justice, the specimens were 

 removed to a good wine cellar, where they remained ten days 

 before they were examined by the hydrometer, and every 

 other necessary means taken to give impartial judgment." 



Class 1st. — No. 1. Pure wine; vintage 1845. Spec, 

 grav. .78. A most excellent wine ; will improve by age. 



No. 2. Four oz. sugar to the gallon. Spec. grav. 76^. 

 Much inferior to No. 1, the pure wine. 



Class 2d. — No. 1, with sugar; vintage 1841. Resembles 

 some of the light Mediterranean wines ; does not bear com- 

 parison with the pure wine. 



No. 2, with sugar; vintage 1841. Resembles some ot the 

 imitations of Madeira. Spec. grav. .76. 



Class 3d. — No. 1. Pure wine ; vintage 184.5. Spec. grav. 



