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In surveying the fine collection of fruit, I am irresistibly led to 

 dilate on the surprising change which has been effected in its 

 quality by skilful culture. Who, for instance, could imagine that the 

 luscious plum emanated from the austere sloe, or that the delicious 

 pippin apple owes its origin to the worthless acid crab? Or what 

 resemblance can be traced between our famous beurre pears, whose 

 flesh is so succulent, rich, and melting, and that hard, stony and as- 

 Irino-ent fruit, which even birds and animals refuse to eat? But what 

 cannot the reforming mind of man surmount? See what it has con- 

 quered in the cultivation of our native grape, which has been re- 

 claimed from a state of sourness a fox would not covet, to a most 

 delightful flavor, and the generous wine which in due time will be 

 expressed from it, bids fair to stand the test with that imported from 

 abroad. I cannot but introduce here the judges' report of the good 

 qualities of our natives: 



Report of J\''ative Wine, tested October 21st, 1846, by Charles H. 

 Hall, William JViblo, ajid Adoniram Chandler, Committee of 

 Judges on Wine. 



The five kinds of wine described below, were sent by Mr. N. 

 Longworth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom a silver cup was awarded. 



No. 1. A fine light wine, of delicious flavor, and will compete 

 with foreign sweet wine. 



2. A light dry wine from the Catawba Grape; sound, of peculiar 

 flavor, resembling Hock, and of the same Bouquet. 



3. A good dry wine, of pure juice, different vintage from the 

 last described, but good sound wine, although not high flavored. 



4. A dry wine from the pure juice of the Herbemont Grape. It 

 is sound, of the peculiar flavor of the grape, and in time will, 

 without doubt, be admired. 



5. From the Missouri Grape, five per cent, brandy. The wine is 

 thin in body, and wanting in flavor, perhaps arising from our not ha- 

 ving had a fair chance of tasting it in perfection, it having been re- 

 cently shaken up. 



A silver medal was awarded for each of the bottles of wine de- 

 scribed below: 



A bottle of wine furnished by Pvlr. T. L. Prevost, Greenville, 



