240 THE CULTUKE Oy THE GEAPE. 



Those who have a taste for such things, and wish to learn, 

 will be repaid by the perusal. 



" Respectfully yours, 



(Signed) " A. G. Semmes." 



"When preparing this third edition, I wrote to E. T. 

 Uuderhill, M.D., to inquire if he had any remarks which 

 he might wish to have published ; he being the largest 

 and most successful cultivator of the native grape in the 

 Northern States. The following letter was the answer 

 received. 



" Ckoton Point, December 25, 1852. 

 " J. FiSK Allen, Esq. : 



" Dbak Sie, — Your letter is received. Having been 

 from home when it arrived prevented my returning you 

 a prompt answer. I was in Philadelphia at the time 

 looking after a vineyard of ten and a half acres of Isa- 

 bella grapes I formed last spring for a resident of that 

 city. That is to say, I furnished the plants, gave every 

 direction for the preparation of the ground, and the 

 planting of the vines, and agreed to furnish him with, 

 one of my vinedressers in two years after it was planted, 

 when it will be of proper age for bearing fruit, and he 

 will prune it accordingly. He will have the entii-e di- 

 rection of the vineyard ; the proprietor paying hitu a 

 reasonable compensation for his labor. 



" I have in this manner established quite a number of 

 vineyards, beside my own at Croton Point, in the vicini- 

 ty of New York city, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and 

 trust, if I live a few years longer, to form one, or more, 



