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REVIEW. 



Art. I. A Practical Treatise o?i the Culture and Treat7nent 

 of the Grape Vine ; embracing its History, with directions 

 for its Treatment in the United States of America, in the 

 open air, atid under glass structures, with and without 

 Artificial Heat. By J. F. Allen. Third edition, enlarged 

 and revised. 1 vol., 12mo, pp. 330. New York : 1853. 



A COPY of the third edition of this work has been laying 

 upon our table for some time, awaiting a notice. In the 

 main it differs but little from the second edition, but the 

 present volume is in a more convenient form than the last. 



Mr. Allen says in his preface, that " in the present edition 

 it has been my plan to give all shades of opinion, for every 

 variety of climate; that wherever located, some remarks 

 might be found appropriate to the situation, provided it is 

 within the latitude suited to grape culture. My own opin- 

 ions are fully expressed, and, as the views of others have 

 been added also, and wherever we differ freely stated, the 

 reader can select for his own adoption, that system which 

 recommends itself as the best to his mind." 



" The material of the former edition, which is simply the 

 details of my practice," being in this, unchanged, we have 

 little to add to what we have already said in our former 

 review of this volume. Mr. Allen still adheres to the use of 

 dead carcasses of animals for borders, and continues his chap- 

 ter on the " use of manures," in which he quotes largely 

 from our articles on the culture of the grape, which have 

 appeared from time to time in the Magazine. 



We have one fault to find, that is, that Mr. Allen did not 

 expunge the laudatory notices of the Sage Grape ; a humbug 

 of this kind is too great to find a place in a work intended to 

 be placed in the hands of amateur cultivators throughout the 

 country. Mr. Allen may argue 'that an account of it is not a 

 recommendation by him. It is, however, nominally so, and 

 he should have struck out from this edition every word in 

 reference to such a worthless grape. 



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