dupour's retrospect 4."» 



prosperous, do matter how good or how bad their 

 frail was; for I was fully of the (.pinion, that do 

 other existiog this side of the Atlantic, would ever 

 remunerate for the trouble of attendance; that the 

 I ape grape was the only one reared by the Swiss 

 settlers; thai it was a hardy and thrifty plant, giving 

 regular if not large crops of grapes, equal to a 

 majority of the French vineyards; according to Chap- 

 ters account— makiug a good wine inferior but to a 

 minority of the European wines, and that it rewarded 

 its cultivator if industrious, as well as any other 

 American produce." It was of this variety that 

 Dufour made what he called his "subsequenl and 

 prosperous plantation" on the Ohio, and it is presum- 

 ably the on.- with which the religious community of 

 the Barmonists, on the lower Wabash, in Indiana. 

 also made a successful venture in grape-growing. 



Having had this successful experience upon the 

 <>hio. Dufour i n dulges in a retrospect of wh.-.t might 

 hfve been the success of the Kentucky vineyard, if 

 his associates had not abandoned the enterprise when 

 h " w;,s '" Europe: "Now lei as see the difference, 

 11 Ur I|; "' punctually followed the plan, and began' 

 fir8t h > ''"■ collection of $8,000, and the purchase 

 of :. families of negroes, for five thousand dollars, we 

 , '"" 1,1 tnen have had from 15 to l>o head, big and 

 s,l,: ' 11 - ' could certainlj have procured bj our joint 

 labor ' enough to support ,,s all. after the second year, 

 besides planting as manj vines as we have done; 

 ••""' although the firsl planting had failed, we would 

 BUrel y, if 1809 .„• 1810, have at leasl 20 acres of 

 bearing vines of the Cap- -rap,., which, at the 

 -'" "' 180 gallons per acre, a. thai is the pro- 



