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sale at public auction soon after his death, most of it was 

 turned to vinegar, or undergoing the acetous fermentation. 



The pure dry wines of Germany weigh from four to seven 

 degrees, in general. The wines of Madeira weigh from twenty 

 to twenty-five. This is occasioned by the quantity of brandy 

 added. In their hot climate, I believe it is necessary, to pre- 

 vent the acetous fermentation. If not, they would not add 

 any brandy, or not so large a quantity. — N. Longworth. 



NATIVE GRAPES. 



To the Editors of the Cincinnati Gazette : — 



Messrs. Editors. — I requested last spring, in your paper, 

 that persons having any new variety of the native grape, 

 would do me the favor to forward me cuttings, that I might 

 test their quality both for the table, and for wine. 



The communication was extensively republished in most 

 parts of the Union, and the result was that twenty-four varie- 

 ties were sent me in February and March last. I grafted 

 them, and also planted cuttings. Most of the grafts are now 

 in fruit, and from the wood and leaf, about one-fourth of them 

 promise to be of superior quality. All of them are new in 

 this vicinity, but two, the Olmstead and Minor's Seedling. 

 Both of these are Fox grapes. The fruit of the first, I have 

 not seen ; the second, is the best Fox grape that I have seen. 

 The pulp is unusually soft, for that family, and the grape re- 

 markably sweet, though it does not contain as much sacchar- 

 ine matter as some grapes less sweet to the taste. It is not a 

 great bearer, though it bears uncommonly well for a grape of 

 that class. 



The Fox grape may never be valuable for a wine grape, 

 except to mix with others, to give aroma and flavor. I re- 

 ceived cuttings of several varieties of Fox grapes, and the 

 stem and leaf of most of them are so strongly Fox, that they 

 cannot be valuable. In my boyhood, I thought this grap^ 



