CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
We find, from history, that the grape-vine has been 
one of the most esteemed and essential fruits from the most 
remote periods of antiquity. Its SS has followed 
the migrations of civilized man into all climes suitable to 
its prosperity, and, since the oui of glass houses has 
been understood. has become adopted into many countries 
where it otherwise could not succeed. 
In the United States, the different varieties of the native, 
Vitis Labrusca, as Isabella, &c., and those of the native 
Vitis vulpina, as Scuppernong, &c., with ordinary treat- 
ment, flourish, and ripen their fruit in the open air; while 
those of the exotic, Vitis vinifera, as Chasselas, Ham- 
burgh, &c., have, excepting in a few solitary instances, 
proved a complete failure, from their tendency to become 
milde wed. In most parts of the Union, there is sufficient 
and heat to bring the differeut varieties of the = 
species to maturity, and they are hardy enough to 
the cold, but unfortunately, when the disease esges the 
expression) attacks them, the free action of growth is 
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