The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American WinesHusmann, George
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The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
Husmann, George
Viticulture -- United States; Wine and wine making -- United States
45 gallons Catawba, $2.00 per gallon, 90 00
42 " Concord, 2.50 " 105 00
20 " Norton's Virginia and Delaware mixed,
at $5.25 per gallon, 105 00
10 " Norton's Virginia, second class, at $3 30 00
Plants sold, 300 00
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$630 00
1865--5 ACRES IN BEARING.
2-1/2 acre Catawba produced 900 galls., at $1.75, 1,575 00
1/2 " Concord " 700 " 2.50, 1,750 00
1 " Norton's Vir. " 600 " 4.00, 2,400 00
1/3 " Delaware " 120 " 5.00, 600 00
1/2 " Herbemont " 350 " 2.50, 875 00
Balance in other varieties, 150 00
Plants sold, 940 00
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$8,290 00
This vineyard has one of the best locations for Catawba and Delaware in
the neighborhood, and its proprietor one of the most intelligent and
industrious cultivators and wine-manufacturers in the vicinity.
The following are copied from the report of a special committee
appointed by the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, to inquire into the
condition of vineyards, and report whether or not grape-growing was
still profitable. I regret to say that our Cincinnati friends have not,
generally speaking, paid as much attention to the introduction and
testing of better varieties--and there are but few vineyards in that
neighborhood--where any other variety than the Catawba has been planted
to any extent. It is to be hoped that the signal failure of that variety
last season will do much to open their eyes to the full importance of
the subject, and to abandon the Catawba, which evidently will not pay
any longer.
But, as we have already said, there are other varieties of grapes being
successfully grown in this vicinity, and we have extended our researches
to some of those vineyards, and give the results as follows:--
Ives' Seedling is a grape of much promise, not addicted to mildew and
rot. Col. WAHRING, of Indian Hill, in this county, has a small vineyard,
only two acres in bearing, which made, the past season, 650 gallons of
wine. The season previous, only one acre in bearing, yielded 560
gallons. The Colonel makes his account for the past season's business
stand as follows:--
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