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THE EVOLUTION OF OFK NATIVE FRUITS 



motor of the new light. He was a man of strong per- 

 sonality and great enterprise, and he threw himself full 

 length into the new grape -growing. He was farmer and 



Fig. 12. Nicholas Longworth ;it 74 yean. 



hanker, and died possessed of greal wealth. Bis grape- 

 growing and wine-making were eminently successful for 

 inaiix years. In 1850, he wrote that the Catawba "will 

 be worth millions of dollars to the United States, and I 

 doubl not that grapes of eqnal value are yet tobefound. 

 It the wild hills of California be as rich in 



