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ties he has been enabled to combine the rich flavor of the one 

 with the hardiness of the other. And as the result of his efforts, 

 it will be in the power of every man who owns a cottage or a 

 patch of laud to regale himself and his family with this most 

 healthful and agi'eeable fruit. 



" EVERY MAN MAY SIT UNDER HIS OWN VINE." 



The suggestions of the essayist in regard to the culture and 

 pruning of the vine seems to us judicious, and harmonize with 

 those of an able Essay on the cultivation of the Grape vine by 

 Clement Hoare, published in 1837, but now almost forgotten. 

 The Committee have agreed in recommending that the writer 

 ^f this Essay receive the Society's premium of $10. 



JAMES H. DUNCAN, Chairman, 



ESSAY UPON OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE. 



BY JOHN M. IVES. 



From the exhibitions of hardy grapes this year we begin to 

 have hopes that at no distant period, the culture of this fruit 

 will be an important branch of industry ; but a few years since 

 the Isabella was the only out door grape, though only in the 

 inost favorable places could it be depended upon to ripen its 

 fruit, but we now have varieties so much earlier, that this kind 

 is being fast superceded by sorts not only sure of ripening in 

 -this latitude, but of superior size and quality, approaching the 

 foreign kinds in delicacy and richness of fla'V'or. Within a 

 few years, we have had the Delaware, Concord, Hartford Pro- 



