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Beeds. It' I could gel my Lease of life renewed t'<»r 

 twenty or thirty years, I would devote mj attention 

 to the subject, and I would cross our bes1 Dative 

 varieties with the besl table and wine grapes of 

 Europe." 



It is unnecessary to rehearse other attempts to 

 grow the foreign grape in eastern America. All 

 efforts eventually resulted in failure. The experiment 

 has been tried upon an extended Bcale by many ex- 

 perl men for a period of over two centuries. We 

 shall, therefore, consider the history of another line 

 of endeavor, Leaving the curious reader in ignorance, 

 for the time being, of the causes of all these dis- 

 asters. 



I'ln First "Experiment of fin Dufours 



A greal and well-laid attempl was finally made, in 

 Kentucky and Indiana, to establish the wine grape in 

 America, the results of which wen- the most far-reach- 

 ing of any single experiment. The Leader of this 

 movement was John James Dufour, a Swiss. Winn 

 a lad, he conceived thai America 

 offered a field in which to engage 

 in wine-making wit h profit . Later 

 in life he was imbued with the 

 feeling which was bo well expressed 

 bj Ant ill. and which has been held 

 by manj another Bince, that good 

 wine will expel thr stronger 

 Liquors. "Then that offspring of tin — distilled 

 liquor — so corrosive and acerb as its parent," he 

 writes, "which crisps the hearl and maketh man mad, 

 will ix- left for tic poor inhabitants of frozen conn- 



