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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
1880 .] ‘ 
AMERICAN 
Grape Growing 
AND 
WINE MAKING. 
BY 
GEORGE HUSMANN. 
PROFESSOR OF HORTICULTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF 
MISSOURI. 
With Contributions from Well-known 
Grape Growers, giving 
A Wide Range of Experience. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
Professor George Husmann, the author of this volume, is 
the recognized authority on grape growing and wine mak¬ 
ing in the United State6. His reputation lias likewise ex¬ 
tended nil over Europe. When grape growing met with its 
disastrous collapse twelve or fifteen years ago, a few liore 
up under the sad reverses and labored on, hoping for better 
times. Of this number was Professor Husmann, who lmd 
then become prominent in the culture of the grape in that 
district of which Hermann, Missouri, is the center. Though 
obliged to give up the vineyards lie had established, and to 
relinquish the publication of the Grape Culturist, a most 
excellent monthly journal, lie still continued to prosecute 
Ids labors and investigations, which have been fitly recog¬ 
nized, among other ways, by his appointment as Professor 
of Horticulture in the Missouri State University. His first 
volume, published some years since, attracted wide atten¬ 
tion. He now embodies In the present volume the results 
of all his labors and investigations down to the present time. 
In order to adapt the work to every latitude, the author 
embodies the methods and opinions of eminent grape culti¬ 
vators in all parts of the country. Campbell, Bateham, and 
Kelly (of the famous Kelly’s Island), s^eak for Ohio. Cashin 
gives Maryland’s experience. The author describes the 
noted vineyards of Crooked Lake, New York. Onderdonk 
-speaks for the pear-line climate of Texas, and in this manner, 
including some of the most successful growers in California, 
others than the author, tell their story, eacli for his own 
locality. 
The work is a complete guide for novices in the culture of 
the Vine, and at the same time may be regarded as a sum¬ 
ming up of everything of importance and value bearing 
upon this industry. Special attention is devoted to the 
Phylloxera, whose destruction of the roots of vines had 
very mucli to do in bringing on the collapse referred to 
above, and the destruction of the vineyards of France.' 
The experiments and discoveries of Husmann and his asso¬ 
ciates in connection with this destructive little insect, are, 
for tlie first time, presented in this volume, and will prove 
of incalculable benefit to the grape growing interests of this 
and other lands. 
The book is copiously illustrated with sketches from the 
author, which add materially to its value. 
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