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Countries. At presetit, however, both the fruit and excellent wine are 

 abundant in those parts, and in countries much beyond the 47th degree 

 of ■North Latitude. 



JVo cultivator, whether horticulturist or farmer, canread these pages 

 without admitting the practical merit of the clear instructions, and 

 recognising an experienced teacher, whose precepts can be adapted to 

 every climate and latitude in which the grape is found indigenous 

 and sufficiently productive for the important object of fermentation. 

 Ml the processes of this latter, are also given in the work, with the most 

 lucid and plain detail of circumstances. Monsieur Thiebaut, who has 

 been so long the principal agent and secretary of the Linncean Society 

 of Paris, and who in that capacity has given such admirable and valua- 

 ble assistance towards its extensive collection of Annals in Natural His- 

 tory and Philosophy, presented this work long since to the subscriber, in- 

 viting him to employ it for the encouragement of the culture of the 

 grape-vine in this country, tohere that plant is a native, and where it 

 needs but the industry of the inhabitants, and proper modes of cultiva- 

 tion, to insure a complete and general success in the raising of wines. 

 Happy to have in part complied with his desire, and honored by being the 

 depository of his recommendation, I the more confidently presume to 

 subjoin my wishes to his, that we may y&t see yearly vintages on this 

 side the Atlantic, as regular as the harvests of grain. 



FELIX PASCALIS M, D. 



President of the Linnaan Branch of Paris for th" J'. States of .America 

 New-York, Ffibrnary lOlh, 1828. 



