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In a subsequent letter, Mr. Cleveland writes : " "We 

 are daily fighting rose-bugs, which made their appear- 

 ance on the twenty-fifth May, but in that part of the 

 vineyard the ground of which I covered, very few are 

 yet to be found, though they have heretofore always been 

 most numerous there." 



The fruit in the -above vineyard is grown for the "dessert. 

 The amount of twenty pounds per vine, where the plants 

 are so wide asunder, appears to me to be a small crop for 

 vines seven or eight years old, of the Isabella or Catawba 

 varieties. It is unquestionably, a good jjlan to limit the 

 plant to this quantity when young, and no one can 

 judge so well, what a vine is capable of producing, with- 

 out injury, as the one having it in charge. 



Culture of the Grape iri, North Carolina. — The follow- 

 ing is a condensed, account of the grape culture in North 

 Carolina, originally written for the November number 

 of De Bow's Commercial Review, by Dr. Sidney Weller, 

 of North Carolina : — 



" North Carolina is ahead of all her sister states, in the 

 wine product, by some thousands of gallons, according 

 to the agricultural census of 1840 ; and, as far as I know, 

 my vineyard is the largest in this state, and, I suppose, 

 in the south, and peAaps the most productive ; since, be- 

 sides entertaining hundreds of visitors, and disposing of 

 quantities of grapes carried away, I made, last vintage, 

 forty barrels of wine. My increase of product has been, 

 annually, for a few years past, about ten barrels. 



" Of our native Scuppernong, the grape for the sontli, 



J make wines that readily bring me, in different markets, 



$1 to $4 per gallon, according to quality. 

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