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attained, and we think that the results would be more 

 speedily obtained, than in fruits of a slower growth, 

 and bearing. 



The history of the development of the pear, reveals 

 to us the inexhaustable resources of Nature, to evolve 

 and multiply varieties, and to increase their excellence. 

 And we doubt not, that these skillful and mysterious 

 forces in their latent and hidden capacities, are richly 

 laden with the germs of numberless varieties of the 

 grape, which for excellence and fitness for our climate, 

 may surpass any as yet known. 



When we consider that the grape is indigenous to 

 this country, growing everywhere, on river-side, and on 

 hillside, climbing over and along old stone walls, and 

 on high forest trees, flourishing in exuberance without 

 care and cultivation, we cannot withstand the conviction, 

 that Providence designed that the grape should become 

 an article of agricultural production. And we cannot 

 but believe, that under the skillful developing hand of 

 man, guided by a true knowledge of the laws of grape 

 culture, this fruit may, by the same ameliorating process, 

 follow the history of the pear, and from the wild state 

 of one or two kinds, expand into numberless varieties 

 of superior excellence, and suited to the necessities of 

 our climate. 



In the matter of the care and management of the 

 grape vine, we have taken the liberty to cull the 

 following few extracts from a paper prepared by R. H. 

 Phelps of Connecticut, entitled, " Cultivation of Grapes 

 in New England," and published in "Patent Office 

 Report for 1858, Department of Agriculture." We 

 deem them of far more worth than anything we could 

 offer from our own experience and observation. 



