INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 13 
accomplished by good grape-growers. Many have been 
prevented from commencing by seeing the many fail- 
ures that have occurred, the small ia of successful 
cases. and the hitherto almost general “say,” that it is 
- absolutely necessary in all cases to have fire heat. But 
we are dawning upon a new era in these respects, and the 
ecigid and determined enthusiasm with which many have 
ow come into, and others who are heginning to enter the 
field, will go far towards dispelling these fears, and will 
eventually drive out prejudice. No fruit-bearing plant 
will give greater satisfaction than the grape-vine, and 
nothing horticultural will continue to prosper without it 
has done his best to discharge his duty, feeling convinced 
that ere long the grape-honse will be considered as neces- 
sary ap eLmeete to an estate, however smail, as at present 
a peach-ore 
- Botanists ge with respect to the classifying of thu 
enus vitis, some making the species very numerous, and 
others only dividing it into well-marked specialities, thereby 
simplifying and rendering the differences more distinct. 
There are some men so fond of div iding and eer: 
nature’s distinctions according to their own fickle whims 
and fancies, that, were we always to follow them, it dia 
take a lifetime to BEuIN to understand their abstract con- 
rections; and as these individuals have in re cases 
become authors, and consequently ave referred t au- 
thority, there is some apology for the novice pase 
in the maze of misunderstanding which they have to some: 
extent established. Such men oug'it to take a course af 
practical lessons in hybridization, and see the results, be 
fore publishing their manuseripts, when they would dis. 
that many of their so-called species are no more. 
than some of the varieties which may be artifi- : : 
