ABOUT BOOK

There seems to be a general consciousness of the fact that, in the struggle for wealth and the greed for wide possessions, as well as[Pg 8] in the inherent difficulties of our situation--thrown as we have been upon a new and vast continent--we have too long neglected the culture of the Vine, one of the most ancient and useful arts of life; an art which has, in all ages, been the fruitful source of comfort and luxury, of health and happiness, to the masses of mankind. The neglect of this important and beautiful department of culture is the more remarkable, since our country embraces every degree of latitude, and every variety of climate and soil in which the grape is known to flourish.