TREATISE ON THE VINE; 



EMBRACING ITS 



HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY, 



DESCRIPTIONS OF ABOVE TWO HUNDRED FOREIGN, AND 

 EIGHTY AMERICAN VARIETIES; 



TOGETHER WITH A 



COMPLETE DISSERTATION 



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 PRINCE, 



PROPRIETOR OF THE LINNJEAN BOTANIC GARDEN, 



Vice-President of the New- York Horticultural Society ; Member of the Linnaean Society 



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. 



NEW- YORK : 



PUBLISHED BY T. & J. SWORDS, G. & C. & H. CARVILL, E. BLISS, COLLINS & CO. 



G. THORBURN & SONS, NEW- YORK; JUDAH DOBSON, PHILADELPHIA; 



J. B. RUSSELL, BOSTON; GIDEON B. SMITH, BALTIMORE; 



JAMES WINSTON, RICHMOND ; AND JOSEPH 



SIMMONS, CHARLESTON, S.C. 



1830. 



