Editor's Preface. 



public, there will, no doubt, be some that are eminently fitted 

 for our cultivation. The great difficulty will soon be to make 

 A judicious selection of those we wish to plant. 



In reference to this subject, Mr. T. S. Kennedy, President 

 of the Kentucky Horticultural Society remarks : " Grape 

 culture in this country is infinitely more profitable than it is 

 in Europe, where from a single species more than two thou- 

 sand good varieties have been produced, and upwards of four 

 hundred of them are now cultivated in France and Spain 

 exclusively for wine."* He supports his statement by the 

 following statistics, taken from Harasthy's work. 



THE AVERAGE WINE PRODUCTION OF EUROPE REDUCED 

 TO AMERICAN ACRES AND GALLONS. 



Austria, and her provinces . . . 



Greece, and her islands 



Italy . . . .^ 



France 



Spain 



Portugal 



Belgium, Switzerland, Ionian Islands 

 German States 



Acres. 



2,685,950 



41,781 



2,887,970 



S.°i 3.774 

 955,004 

 238,751 

 112,212 

 358,338 



Millions 

 gallons. 



7i4t 

 8 



1.27s 



884 



144 



26 



4 



Sa 



Gallons 

 per acre 



265 ' 



«95 

 441 

 176 

 152 

 107 

 33 

 149 



The aggregate number of acres under vine culture in 

 Europe is 12,28^,780. 



The total average yield of wine per year is 3,107,039,000 

 gallons. 



The wines, at twenty-five cents per gallon, are worth, total 

 annual value, 8776,759,750. 



* " Western Ruralist," Louisville, Kjr., Vol. I, No. I. April, 1867. 

 f Of these 714,000,000 gallons, Hungary produces some 450,000,000. 



