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and Reynolds be appointed a Committee to examine and 
report on the above-mentioned vineyards, and that all who 
take an interest in the subject be invited to accompany 
me Committee. 
Resolved, That all persons engaged in the Culture of the 
Vine, and all who take an interest therein and will give 
attention to our proceedings, may become members of 
this Association, and are invited to attend our next meet- 
ing, at Atlanta, on Thursday of the week of the Fair, in 
October next, for more perfect organization. 
Resolved, That a Committee of three, to wit : Hon, Mark 
A. Cooper, Col. Benj. E. Green and John B, Peck, Esq., 
be appointed to draft a Constitution to be presented at our 
next meeting. 
Resolved, That the report of the Examining Committee 
when made, with our proceedings, be published in the 
Southern Cultivator and Soil of the South, and such other 
papers, as will oblige us. 
E, W. Green, Chairman. 
Ben, E. Green, Secretary, 
Dalton, Ga., August 19, 1856. 
The Committee appointed by the Vine Growers of 
Georgia to examine and report on the Vineyards of Whit- 
aeld county, submit the following 
REPORT: 
Your Committee have examined three vineyards, to 
wit: that of Lawrence E. Wilson, containing 2^ acres; 
that of Dr. E. W. Green, containing 4 acres, and that of 
James Green, containing 2| acres. We found these vine- 
yards, which were commenced in February, 1854, in a 
high state of cultivation and bearing freely, averaging 
about 40 good-sized, well developed bunches of grapes to 
each vine, mostly Catawba. The cuttings were planted in 
drills, 7 feet apart and 3| feet distant in the drills; in 
^ound prepared by turning up the soil 18 inches deep, 
in red and gray land, some of which was exceedingly 
gravelly, and, to all appearance, very poor. The bearing 
vines were three-quarter to one and a quarter inches in 
diameter, trained to trellis, about 62 feet high, and then 
topped off. The grapes, though not fully matured, were 
of an exceedingly fine quality, and quite equal, in the 
opinion of your Committee, to any other grape raised in 
the open air in this State, as a table grape. These vine- 
yards were planted by, and have been under the exclusive 
control and direction of Mr. Charles Axt, whose skill as 
a vine grower and dresser is abundantly proved by the 
high state of cultivation and perfect success of the vine- 
yards examined by your Committee, and we recommend 
him to all who may desire to engage in this profitable 
branch of agriculture. 
J. A. Hayden, Chairman. 
Dalton, Ga., Aug. 19, 1856, 
VINE GROWING IN GEORGIA. 
We are under obligations to Mr, Charles Axt for a fine 
lot of Catawba Grapes, from his vineyards, near Dalton, 
Whitfield county. Certainly we have seen nothing of the 
grape kind that equalled these, either for idchness of flavor 
er luxuriance of growth, A bunch of Mr. Axt’s grapes, 
is indeed a perfect curiosity. At the distance of a few 
paces it appears like one solid grape. 
Mr. Axt is already well known as a German vine 
grower, who has devoted himself for the past five years to 
the cultivation of the grape in Georgia. We are happy 
to learn that his efforts have been rewarded with complete 
success. The experiments made by himself, not only on 
his own vineyards in Whitfield county, but elsewhere 
Jahrougbout the State, have fully satisfied all v/ho have 
interested themselves in the matter, that the cultivation of 
the vine in our State is no longer a matter of experiment, 
but an enterprise which promises to add materially to the 
wealth and happiness of the country. Mr. Axt thinks 
that no part of the Union is so well adapted to grape cul- 
ture as Georgia, and the success which has attended this 
business in the Northwest, satisfies us that wine must, in 
time, becomes an important article of the commerce of the 
State. 
A meeting was held in Dalton on the 19th inst,, for the 
purpose of forming a Vine Grower’s Association , and we 
will if possible lay the proceedings before our readers in a 
few days, — Atlanta Intelligencer. 
INSTRUCTION ON THE ART OF MAKIBiG WOS^E. 
BY CADET-DE:VAUX, 
Published by order of the French Governme.ui, 
TRANSLATED BY J. R., OP AUGUSTA, GBORGrlA. 
[Continued from our September vAurJnr ] 
OF CLARiriCATIOK, 
If the racking or the drawing off of the vritae has not 
affected its clarification, isinglass dissolved in a small 
quantity of wine is introduced into the hogshead, and 
well stirred with small twigs. When the glue has settled 
down with a portion of the lees it has combined with, the 
wine must then be racked. In Southern climates the use 
of isinglass is dreaded, and as a substitute they use the 
whites of eggs; one dozen is sufficient for 60 gallons. 
KEEPING OF WINES. 
It is often with wine as with fortune, difficult to acquire 
and still more difficult to preserve. Wines, whether in 
hogsheads or bottles, are generally kept in cellars ; the 
largest and closest vesssels are the best. Who has not 
heard of the enormous capacity of those vessels of Heidel- 
burg in which wine is preserved for ages, and continually 
improving: the vessels in which wine is put, and the 
places where they are kept, require particular care, 
or bottles. 
Bottles contribute to the preservation or alteration of 
wine, according to the quality of the glass; tartareous and 
gaseous wines are susceptible of alteration when the glass 
is tender; the carbonic gas free in white sparkling wines, 
and the tartar in those wines where it is predoniLnent, 
keep acting upon the salt that enters in the composition 
of those glasses ; the glass and the wine decompose each 
other.* 
OF CELLARS. 
There are cellars where wine keeps perfectly well ; in 
others, it suffers and undergoes alteration — cellars should 
in preference face the North ; when they are too dry, the 
hogsheads shrink, and wine oozes out ; when thejr are too 
damp, they moulder; it is, therefore, requisite to have a 
constant and well regulated degree of moisture ; the light 
should also be moderate ; when it is too great everything 
dries up, and when too obscure, everything rots. Cellars 
should be made proof against commotions ; the shaking 
occasioned by the rapid passage of a carriage agitates 
and raises the lees, and disposes wine to acetification ; this 
kind of agitation, however, is salutary to wine when 
bottled. Thunder is one of those great causes, witich, by 
the confusion it produces in the atmosphere, naturally 
acts upon wine ; the vessels in which it is kept do not pro- 
tect it sufficiently from the action of the electric fluid. All 
vegetable or animal substances, susceptible of fermenta- 
tion, and especially of putrefaction, must be removed from 
places where wines are kept. There are countries where 
*I knew tile effect, and .su.epected the cause of the altoraiiou o' 
wine in the bottles, but never saw an e.xp]anat\cii before. 
McCl 
