IN EUROPEAN VINEYARDS: TREATING OF VINE-CULTURE; VINE DISEASE AND ITS CURE; WINE-MAKING AND WINES, RED AND WHITE; Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. 639 151093 I THINK work will be found in some degree my interesting to the general reader, if he have curiosity, which Hume defines as "the love of learning." I think, too, it may prove instructive to the general drinker as well, inasmuch as it relates to his daily beverages, and their effects on his health and happi ness. But my chief aim has been to convey information, both practical and theoretical, bearing on the important matter of wine-growing in America. Inasmuch as such information has of necessity got interwoven and somewhat entangled throughout the whole texture of the narrative, and might consequently be difficult to refer to, I have added an index, which will help the reader to search out what he may need to find, under the several heads of "planting," "training," "pruning," etc. To the same end, I would here indicate, in advance, a few of the more important matters which |