iV PREFACE. 



then known, and that the grape in some form has be- 

 come an article of daily diet for millions, — the progress 

 seems almost incredible. Yet with all this progress, we 

 are still striving for adTancement. This is as it should 

 be, and when we old men are gone, let us hope that our 

 children, inspired by the same love for the work which 

 urged us on, will take it as it drops from our hands and 

 carry it on to completion. It would seem then but a 

 natural desire to round out the work of a lifetime by a 

 retrospect of the past ten years — the period which has 

 elapsed since the preceding revision — in noting the many 

 improvements in the way of new varieties, in pruning 

 and training, in marketing and in combating diseases 

 and insects injurious to the grape. But living at tbe^ 

 western extreme of the Union, where the Vinifera is 

 almost exclusively cultivated (the American varieties 

 being only used as stocks for grafting), I have been com- 

 pelled to draw on my Eastern friends for information, 

 which Ihey have freely and kindly furnished, and have 

 thus made the second, the most interesting part of the 

 book. To them, one and all, I tender heartfelt thanks, 

 coupled with the hope that the new edition may be 

 generally helpful in the work we are striving to 

 advance. 



The period elapsing since 1883 has witnessed great 

 changes in viticulture. At that date its friends were 

 almost discouraged by its manifold enemies of a fungous 

 nature, but remedies have kept pace with them until 

 now the cultivation of the Vinifera seems possible in 

 localities where heretofore ojily the most hardy of our 

 native sorts have been grown. Of course, winter protec- 

 tion is necessary in these localities, but the best varie- 

 ties are well worth the extra trouble. From several 

 parts of Texas and New Mexico I have already the as- 

 surance that they can furnish the earlier varieties of the 

 Vinifera by the beginning of May ; thus, when we join 



