An inaugural discourse, delivered before the New-York Horticultural Society at their anniversary meeting, on the 31st of August, 1824 / by David Hosack.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1824
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Credit: An inaugural discourse, delivered before the New-York Horticultural Society at their anniversary meeting, on the 31st of August, 1824 / by David Hosack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cheaper than they can import it. Further and more recent observations made by Mr. Adlum, already referred to, by the late Mr. Thomas Roach of Hartford, by the sect of Harmonists from Suabia, now cultivating the vine to a great extent in Indiana, and the extensive establish- ment at Cacahokia, now Illinois, also abundantly evince the capacity of our soil and climate in the production of wines of the best quality from various grapes, both foreign and domestic. It is remarked by Mr. Madison,* whose observa- tions on the subject of agriculture, to which he now devotes his retirement, are no less profound and deserving public attention than were those which occupied his mind during his public life, when engaged in the weightier concerns of the nation, That the practicability and national economy of substituting, to a great extent at least, for the foreign wines, on which so large a sum is expend- ed, those which can be produced at home, with- out withdrawing labour from objects better re- warding it, is strongly illustrated by the experi- ments and statements made upon this subject.