20 THE EVOLUTION OF OUB NATIVE FRUITS 



eral information •, the extensive usefulness of that 

 gentleman in having in 1801 supplied Kentucky 

 with fifteen hundred cuttings, Pennsylvania with 

 fifteen hundred, and other quantities to vineyards 

 established in Connecticut, New- York, New-Jersey, 

 Maryland, Virginia, and the State of Ohio, from 

 which numerous branches have since issued, awake 

 fresh sentiments of respect for so useful a character. 

 Such men merit a token of respect from every state 

 in the Union." 



The attempt to grow the Old World wine grapes 

 out of doors in eastern America was continued until 

 twenty -five or thirty years ago; in fact, the effort is 

 even now made by an occasional amateur. Nicholas 

 Longworth — of whom we shall yet have much t<» 

 say — wrote, in 1845, of his endeavors in this direc- 

 tion: "I have for thirty years experimented on the 

 foreign grape, both for the table and for wine. 

 In the acclimation of plants, I do not believe ; for 

 the White Sweet Water does not succeed as well 

 with me, as it did thirty years since. I obtained 

 a large variety of French grapes from Mr. Loubat, 

 many years since. They were from the vicinity of 

 Paris and Bordeaux. Prom Madeira, 1 obtained six 

 thousand vines of their best wine grapes. Nol one 

 was found worthy of cultivation in this latitude, 

 and woe routed from the vineyards. As a last ex- 

 periment, 1 imported seven thousand vines from the 

 mountains of Jura, in the vicinity of Salins, in 

 France. But alter a trial <>!' live years, all 



have been tin-own away. [f we intend cul- 



tivating the grape for wine, we musl relj <>n our 



native grapes, ami new varieties raised from their 





