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Theee are several works published in England, written 

 by practical men, giving ample directions for the cultiva- 

 tion of the grape in that country ; but the climate of the 

 Northern States of America is so different from that of 

 England, that, however well calculated these directions 

 may be for the latter, they can hardly be expected to suit 

 the former. The temperature of England is milder, and 

 is not subject to the great extremes of heat and cold 

 .which we experience. The searching northwesterly winds, 

 which prevail with us in New England in the winter and 

 early spring months, with the mercury often at zero, and 

 even below that point, and the sudden changes we are 

 liable to, in this season of the year, often equal to forty 

 degrees in a few hours, render the care requisite, for the 

 successful forced culture of fruit, "^ery great, and the pro- 

 cess a more difficult one, in this country, than in En- 

 gland.* I 



* Mr. Hovey, in his Magazine of Horticulture, quotes the above passage, 

 with this remark relative thereto : " In regard to the ' more difficult ' pro- 



