AMERICAN  WINE,  BRANDY  AND  TARTAR.  411 
The  practical  results  of  these  experiments  for  apothecaries  are 
two-fold:  1,  to  be  able  to  have  always  a  nice  preparation  on 
hand,  and  2,  to  restore  the  solution  when  changed  by  exposure 
to  its  former  qualities ;  and,  therefore,  it  is  unnecessary  to  pre- 
pare, as  it  was  proposed,  a  thicker  syrup,  the  sugar  of  which 
was  to  prevent  the  separation  of  iodine  and  iron ;  the  present 
solution  is  too  convenient  on  account  of  its  capability  of  being 
dropped,  to  make  such  a  change  desirable,  since  every  body 
can  preserve  it  in  the  most  simple  manner. 
Philadelphia,  July,  1854. 
ON  THE  PRODUCTION  OF  (WINE  BRANDY,  AND  TARTAR  IN 
THE  VALLEY  OF  THE  OHIO. 
By  the  Editor. 
During  a  recent  visit  to  Cincinnati,  we  had  several  opportuni- 
ties of  inquiring  into  the  progress  of  the  grape  culture  in  that 
neighborhood,  and  were  gratified  at  the  very  considerable  pro- 
gress that  has  been  made  in  that  branch  of  industry.  The  hill- 
sides around  the  city  are  thickly  spotted  with  vineyards,  and  the 
culture  of  the  vine  is  spreading  from  farm  to  farm  ;  the  excess  of 
produce,  beyond  the  demand  of  the  table,  finding  a  ready  market 
at  the  wine  presses  of  the  large  growers  and  wine  makers.  The 
difficulties  and  discouragements  incident  to  all  new  enterprizes 
are  being  gradually  overcome,  the  kinds  of  grape  best  adapted 
to  the  soil  and  climate  have  been  ascertained,  and  the  wine 
growers  now  look  forward  to  an  annual  increase  of  their  crops. 
Many  foreign  varieties  of  the  grape  have  been  experimented 
with,  and  several  of  native  origin,  but  none  has  proved  as  well 
suited  to  the  production  of  wine,  as  the  native  Oatawba.  Major 
Adlum,  of  Georgetown,  D.  C,  has  the  credit  of  being  the  first  to 
bring  the  Catawba  into  notice  as  a  wine  grape;  and,  "in  view  of 
its  present  and  prospective  importance  as  the  yet  unrivalled 
wine  grape,  for  a  native  superior  to  which  Mr.  Longworth  has 
offered  a  reward  of  five  hundred  dollars,  he  has  declared  that  in 
bringing  this  grape  into  public  notice,  he  has  rendered  his  country 
a  greater  service  than  he  would  have  done,  had  he  paid  off  the 
national  debt." 
Mr.  Longworth  of  Cincinnati,  the  pioneer  in  this  enterprize, 
