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the domestic manufacture of wines, and check the excessive 

 importation of good and bad liquors generally. 



It is the opinion of some that if our people would use and 

 be satisfied for a time with a common wine, like the Claret 

 and cheap wines of Europe, they could be supplied from the 

 varieties of grapes now raised, such as the Concord and Clin- 

 ton. Nothing but inexorable climate will baffle the indomit- 

 able Yankee energy in the future success with grapes and 

 wines, and it would indeed be a happy era of prosperity and 

 good feeling. 



It is one of the most gratifying and marvellous sights abroad? 

 to behold the level fields of France, the rising hills of Switzer- 

 land, and the terraced cliffs of the Rhine, thickly studded with 

 stakes, entwined with vines, loaded with luscious fruits. Their 

 comparatively free and happy people, male and female, toil and 

 revel, feast and make merry, in spite of the lords of the soil, 

 whose questionable rights they in time will be ready to dis- 

 pute. Without the juice of the grape Paris would be a pan- 

 demonium. Unused to restraint, the people abuse not their 

 freedom — their wines seem to soothe rather than excite — to 

 quench instead of increasing the appetite — and they are 

 strangers alike to indigestion and nightmares — horror and 

 hobgoblins ! 



Unfortunately, all attempts to succeed with the many fine 

 foreign grapes in any part of this country, by open culture, 

 have failed. Under glass they are Vought to the highest per- 

 fection as eating grapes. The old theories for preparing ex- 

 pensive borders and the equally unnecessary outlay on the 

 buildings, have deterred most people from indulging in the sup- 

 posed luxury for the more wealthy. But the time will come 

 when farmers even, will have their cheaply constructed grape- 

 ries and realize more on the cost and labor than on the same 

 amount of each bestowed on field crops. 



Care is required in raising grapes under glass ; and while 

 this is necessary for success in everything, few objects com- 

 pensate better, pecuniarily and socially, than a well-managed 



