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and grafting it for two or three successions upon unsuitable 

 or unhealthy stocks. We do not mean, however, to assert 

 that grafting on healthy stocks impairs the vigor of a sort — 

 but only that any given variety, which has been propagated 

 in this way time and again, for 100 years, is very likely, in 

 the course of that time, to have been put upon an unhealthy 

 stock, and hence to have lost some of its original vigor. 

 January i 1861. 



(From the Western Horticultural Review.) 

 FALSIFICATION OF WINES. 



As an evidence of the great importance our wine interest 

 is assuming among the products of our country, the miserable 

 attempt to palm oflf other brands at auction will show how 

 highly ours are valued. An instance of this kind has elicited 

 an explanation from Mr. Longworth, in the New York Tri- 

 bune, which is here appended : 



** Sparkling Catawba Wins of Cincinnati. 

 "A friend, recently from your city, informs me that, at the 

 request of Mr. Leinan, a wine merchant on Front street, in 

 your city, he sent him a box of my Sparkling Catawba wine, 

 and charged him the invariable price here — $12; and that 

 Mr. Leinan expressed surprise at the price, as he had recently 

 bought my wine at auction, in your city, at 88 per box. I 

 have not yet been able to supply the home demand — have 

 never sent a box to New York, or any other city, for sale. 

 Our merchants, who sell at $12, have a commission. My 

 wine has not only an engraved label on each bottle, but * N. 

 Longworth, Cincinnati,* branded on the end of each cork, 

 and my name, and the name of the wine, and Cincinnati, with 

 a circle of bunches of grapes around it, on each bottle. My 

 wine never will be sold at auction. I shall esteem it a special 

 favor if Mr. Leinan will ascertain who sent the wine to auc- 

 tion, and write me. That he will also compare the labels on 



