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Southern District of JVeta- York, ss. 



BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentieth day of September, A.D. 1830, in the fifty-fifth 

 year of the Independence of the United States of America, William Robert Prince, of the 

 said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author 

 and proprietor, in the words following, to wit: 



" A Treatise on the Vine ; embracing its history from the earliest ages to the present day, 

 with descriptions of above two hundred foreign, and eighty American varieties; together with 

 a complete dissertation on the establishment, culture, and management of vineyards. 

 " The Vine too, here her curling tendrils shoots, 

 Hangs out her clusters glowing to the south, 

 And scarcely wishes for a warmer sky." 



By William Robert Prince, aided by William Piince, proprietor of the Linna:an Botanic Garden, 

 Vice-President of the New-York Hoilicultural Society; Member of the Linnsean Socioty of 

 Paris ; of the Horticultural Societies of London and Paris ; of the Imperial Society of the 

 Georgofili at Florence ; Honorary Member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, etc. etc." 

 In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled " an act for the encourage- 

 ment of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors 

 of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled " An act, sup- 

 plementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies 

 of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times 

 therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and 

 etching historical and other prints." 



FREDERICK J, BETTS, 

 Clerk of the Southern District of New- York. 



J. SEYMOUR, PRINTER, JOHN-STREET. 

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