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The first edition of this treatise was prepared at the 

 suggestion of some friends and other gentlemen ; it was 

 intended for use more iiarticularly in Massachusetts and 

 the neighboring States. It has had a more extensive 

 circulation, and, from questions proposed to me from dis- 

 tant States in this Union, as also by direct request, I have 

 been induced to prepare a second, and again a third 

 edition, enlarged by notes of ray own, explanatory of the 

 first, and by copious extracts from such sources as would 

 present most, if not all, of the various conflicting views 

 respecting the cultivation of the grape. 



In giving the opinions of others, it has been my endeavor 

 to embrace as great a period of time as possible, that the 

 difierence in those now held, if any, might be seen ; to 

 attain this object, when by so doing, I could retain the 

 ideas of those quoted, such parts have been extracted as 

 contained selections from previous authors. In the re- 

 marks on these opinions and systems, their bearing upon 

 the culture, in this country, has been mainly considered, 



