The leading and most of the better American varieties, and a good many Vinifera varieties, 

 and vines of all the native species, were planted in the vineyards. Not all were planted in all the 

 vineyards, but all, or nearly all, were grown in both the limy and sandy soil. The leading varieties 

 were grown in marketable quantities. (See Chapter II. for partial list of species and varieties 

 planted in the vineyards.) 



Grape Nurseries, Planted with Cuttings 



Each year since 1880, from one to five acres of land have been devoted to growing plants 

 from cuttings of nearly all introduced varieties that were planted in the vineyards, including, 

 during several years, all the native wild grape species of the United States, excepting V. rotundi- 

 folia and V . Munsoniana, which do not grow from cuttings, but are propagated by layering 

 in vineyard. 



Seedling Grape Nurseries 



Since 1881, when the first were planted in Texas, some ten different years, large numbers of 

 select and hybridized grape seeds have been planted, carefully tilled, studied, culled and the young 

 vines transplanted and rigidly tested in test vineyards, as described in Chapter II. 



After thus educating myself for the work and making such extensive preparation for the 

 origination of varieties, which were essential to vineyard culture, to enable it to fill its entire 

 sphere, few persons regarded my effort otherwise than that of a "crank," and often have I heard 

 myself mentioned as the "vine crank." This, to me, was good evidence that my object was not 

 comprehended; that the special knowledge necessary to comprehend it, and become interested 

 in it, was lacking generally among grape growers, and even among the majority of writers upon 

 grapes. It was clear to me that, in order to make the work generally beneficial, and regarded 

 with any degree of favor by the public, the people must be educated. 



Not until 1885 did the writer attempt a new classification of species, and that has undergone 

 much revision and change in its authoi's hands. 



The exhaustive and complete description and classification of North American Grapes, 

 given in Chapter I., brings this work up to the present date, and I trust this part of the work 

 will be interesting to botanists as well as to viticultural students. 



That part of the work upon Breeding Varieties (Chapter II.) , I hope will attract the attention 

 of originators and that it may also incite the boys, — and girls, too, — on the farm, and in every 

 home where grapes are grown, to spend some of their recreation time in this fascinating and 

 delightful work. 



Part Second is prepared especially to aid those engaged in any way in growing grapes for 

 the family or market, 



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