276 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



request, tried the experiment three years after- 

 ward, but his success was far less than our own. 

 It is safe to conclude, therefore, that the native 

 vine can not be successfully, or at least profitably, 

 grown from eyes in the open air. Because it has 

 been done in France, it does not follow that it 

 can be done here. The climate of the two 

 countries is entirely different. 



