PREFACE. Im following work has been undertaken, not so much in the
hope of adding anything new to what h already known of the culture
of the vine, as with a view to colIect the scattered information
which exists on the subject in periodicals and kindred works as
well as amongst practical men, and to throw it into such a shape as
may prove useful to the amateur and the vinedresser. This being our
object, we have endeavored to modify and adapt the practice and
principles of others to our own climate and wants, and to simplify
and explain the processes of the profeessional gardener so that he
who reads may practice. To this end we have in general avoided
theoretical discussions, and have depended chiefly upon the
practice of ourselves and others for the directions here laid down.
For although we know that well established principles are the only
sure foundation of all right practice, this is not the place for
discussing the theoretical grounds upon which these principles
rest. A practical work should deal with facts and be a guide to
action. As the garden culture of the vine, at least in the northern
States, differs from that in the vineyard only in the more thorough
preparation of the ground and the larger size of the plants, we
have not formally divided the o r iknt o sections corresponding to
these two classes, as the principles which govern both are
precisely alike. Where, however, some peculiar details of
management apply to either we have inserted them in the section to
which t. hey properly belong-as under the subject of VINE BORDERS
and CARE OF OLD VINES. A full account of the Ohio vineyards is
given in the Appendix, amongst other examples of American practice,
and the peculiarprinciples which regulate the management of grapes
devoted to the production of wine will be found in their
appropriate place, riz., in the second part of this work, which is
specially devoted to that subject. The varieties of the vine have
multiplied so rapidly of late, thnt it would be impossible to give
a coinplete list even of those which have been brought out. Seeing
then that at best our work must be incomplete in this respect, we
have described those only which have been thoroughly proved and
rmom mended by some well known society or cultivator. Of the two or
three hundred varieties of American grapes of which names are to be
found, probably not more than one in ten ham . been tested in
1ocalit iw diEering greatly from the place of their origin. In the
execution of our work, we believe that where we have had occasion
to make use of the labors of others, due credit has always been
given and we have also added a list of tliose books which we have
most freely consulted, so that those who desire to make the culture
of the grape . a specialty may be directed to original wurce. s of
information. That the culture of the grape will ere long attain a
position of which its present condition atiords little idea, we
have no doubt...
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