The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-03
Wine to Flow Like Water.

'sThe United States are destined to be-
come the greatest VINE producing country
in the world" said Mr. b FClayton, cd
ter of the Vine and tr,nt Gro,oer: pub
hshed In tnis city. Il calculate that ten
years from now our annual VINE product
will have amounted to lOO,U 0, U gallons
at least. Aud even then the industry VIII
only be in its infancy as to territory. Ia
the United States there Will De three
great wine centres. The hrSt VIII be the
Pacific slope; the second, the
slope or table lands oe.Ween the Ailegha-
nv Mountains aud the Blue Ridge, lnclud-
ing the States of Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, aud part OF Ken
| lucky and Tennessee; and the third the
| Indian Territory, with large parts OF New
Mexico, Arizona, and some parts OF AT
kansas and Kansas TO draw from. BESIDES
these, Texas begins TO loom up asa pros
pective great wine-produclng States.
What will the people do with all the
wine that will be produced In this country,
say twenty-five or fifty yeals from now.
They will onsume by far the greater
part oft, the same as in France. The
taste Of our people for wine Is steadily
growing. You viii scarcely lind an Amer
lean family that has lived abroad that
does not regard wire as indispensable al
the dinner table, and such families viii es-
! tabllsh the custom tor the whole country.
But The wine merchants of England
are already turning their attention to this
country, and particularly to California,
| for their future supp lies. The abundance
OF California wines would save them from
the necessity Of experimenting the natu.
raj Juice Of the grape with more or less
INJURIOUS decoctions. As port wine, tor
which the people OF London have such
an affection, is yearly becoming more
scarce and more suspicious, the vineyards
of the Pacific coast would yield them a
port more generous than much that Is
now consumed at London Aldermanic
| dinners. The fact should also be re
membered that in California for the last
thirty years there has not been a single
season in which the vine crop has not
been a complete sucsess, whereas in Eu
rope and especially in France the years In
which wine culture is a greater or less
| failure succeed each other with depressing
regularity.
"What are the prospects for the Pied
mont slope that you spoke ot?'
"Well, as California is the Italy Of the
New World, the Piedmont slope is the
| coming Bordeaux district OF America.
This district includes Virginia. North
| Carolina, South Carolina, aud Georgia,
and possesses wonderful advantages OF
situation Tor grape culture Nr t VI
Wilson, a well known ocleu.i>', aye that
a study of the geUlo.ICa. formation OF the
slope along It's entire trend and OF the
chen istry Of its soil satisfies him that
every variety of soil and OF almost every
grade Of fertility is furnished by this
| sweep Of county, which is more than a
thousand miles in length, and varies In
breadth from fifty to one hundred miles.
Meteorological observations extending
over a series of years have demonstrated
the mean climate to be all that could be
desired for the growth of vines and the
ripening of the varieties of grapes that are
grown in that belt. 1t is well known that
in our South Atlantic region the summer
temperature usually reaches beyond the
middle Of September, SO that the average
for that month is 700. Another circum-
stance which unmistakably indicates the
climatic adaptation Of this region is the
great variety aud luxuriance of wild
grapes, The number of vineyards in
North Carolina is at present large, The
famous Tokay vineyard near Fayetteville,
owned by the Hon. Wharton J Green, is
| believe, the largest single vineyard this
side of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Whar-
tons fine native wines bore off the first
prize at the Atlanta Exposition