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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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acres was selected near Lexington, Ky.,and there he began work in the most enthusiastic manner. He induced twoof his brothers to come from Switzerland to join him, and they brought othervarieties of their best grapes. But after three years trial he gave it up asa hopeless effort and turned his attention to the cultivation of our nativegrapes. The beginning of successful grape culture in America may be said to havebeen made by Dufour, in his next or second attempt, which was in 1802, atVevay, Ind., on the banks of the Ohio, and with a variety of the wild Vitislabrusca, or fox grape, found near the Schuylkill River before the Revolu-tionary War. It was at first called the Cape grape, from a mistakennotion that it had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope. It was alsoknown by several other names. Although this grape was the first of a verylong list of native varieties which have made our country famous in grapeculture, it has long since been entirely abandoned for better kinds. But the
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484 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY vineyard at Vevay, planted largely of this variety, was the first really suc-cessful one in America. The next forward step was the introduction of the Isabella and Catawba,both having originated in America, not long previous to 1820, although ofunknown parentage; but, perhaps, as the results of accidental crossing be-tween our native wild grapes and some of the foreign kinds. The Isabellais supposed to have originated in South Carolina, and was brought from thereby Mrs. Isabella Gibbs and planted in her garden in Brooklyn, N. Y., whereit came to the notice of William R. Prince in 1816, when in full bearing.He named it Isabella in her honor, and introduced it to the general public. The Catawba is supposed to have originated as a seedling near the CatawbaRiver, in North Carolina, but was not generally known until Major JohnAdlum, of the District of Columbia, found it in bearing on the premises ofMrs. Scholl, a tavern keeper of Clarksburgh,

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