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STATE AGRICULTUBAL SOCIETY. 
We have already several excellent varieties of the grape 
grown on American soil, and suited to it a soil extensive and 
varied enough for every range of quantity and quality. Who 
would discover a patch of ground capable of yielding a “ Jo- 
hannesberger,” a “Tokay” or a “Margeaux,” need only 
make diligent and careful search, and, somewhere between the 
lakes and the gulf and the two oceans that circumscribe our 
vineyard territory, will be sure to find it. 
Accompanying this report is a paper from William Griffith, 
of Pennsylvania, on the propagation of the vine, referred to 
us. This is deemed of such importance us to justify its publi¬ 
cation entire without comments on the subject by your com¬ 
mittee. 
Finally, your committee cannot close this report without 
acknowledging the many courtesies extended to them by Eu¬ 
ropean exhibitors and commissioners in facilitating the inves¬ 
tigations incident upon the discharge of their duties. 
SUPPLEMENTAL REPOPT. 
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The committee, since making their report on the third branch 
of the subject given them in charge, have visited the princi¬ 
pal vine districts of Switzerland and Germany, and deem some 
of the observations there made worth being embodied in the 
supplemental report now submitted. 
The vineyards to which attention was more especially given 
were those of the borders of lake Geneva, those of Pfalz or 
Rhenish Bavaria, and of the banks of the Rhine, the Neckar, 
and the Main. 
With regard to the quality of the soil, we have the same 
remark to make here as was made in the former report— 
namely, that the vines yielding the best wine were to be found 
growing on the poorest soil. Geologically, the soil through¬ 
out all the abo^je districts is very much the same—namely, 
basalt and sandstone, both formations usually seen in close 
proxinaity, the basalt uppermost and resting on the other. The 
only exceptions were a few patches of limestone and slate. 
