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greater magnitude and extent, a degree of economy is rendered 

 indispensably necessary in the details. Another is, that by 

 means of garden culture the vine is made to yield fruit for the 

 table much farther north ; grapes being thereby produced in 

 great perfection in the gardens and hothouses of Stockholm 

 and St. Petersburgh. 



On this and on every other species of culture there exists 

 a contrariety of opinion. I shall therefore give the modes 

 generally adopted as the most advantageous. It seems to be 

 the general opinion that trellises for training vines against the 

 sides of walls should be placed about nine inches to a foot 

 from the wall, also that the walls should be painted black or 

 tarred, and the results of some experiments are hereafter given. 

 I will further remark that to such perfection has the culture 

 of the vine attained in the most disadvantageous climates, that 

 I doubt not we shall ere long have the fig, pomegranate 

 and other southern fruits subjected to a culture based on si- 

 milar principles and attended with equal success. The authors 

 of the Bon Jardinier, published at Paris, give as the climax 

 of the art of cultivating the vine on trellises or walls the course 

 practiced at Thomery, a village near Fontainbleau, which 

 supplies the markets of the metropolis with the most delicious 

 fruit principally of the White Chasselas variety. 



This mode of culture now approbated in England, w r as like 

 many other improvements not adopted there until a considera- 

 ble period after it was appreciated and pursued in this country, 

 and the very figures given in their publications in regard 

 to the mode of training, &c. were anticipated by those of Mr. 

 Dean, deposited at the office of the N. E. Farmer ; and the 

 Hon. John Lowell very justly remarks, that to us "it is some 

 satisfaction to perceive that the English cultivators appreciate 

 it as highly as we did." 



With the original work now before me, I deem it altogether 

 unnecessary to make a new version,when so perfect a transla- 

 tion exists, as that made by Mr. Lowell, and I consequently in- 

 sert that here, accompanied by some remarks from his pen ; and 

 I feel gratified at this and every other opportunity of paying 



