There has recently been issued a treatise by this title, on grapes
and grape culture by Charles Mitzky, of this city. Its main feature
is the very full list of hardy grapes cultivated in this country with
their description, origin and history as far as known, and numerous
illustrations and colored plates. Over eight hundred varieties are
described, thus bringing together nearly all that have so far been
produced or made public. The work also contains chapters on planting,
pruning, cultivating, training, fertilizers, diseases and noxious insects
and their remedies, harvesting, storing, marketing and a brief account of
wine making, in fact almost everything of interest to the grape-grower
is here treated, some of the chapters being contributed by prominent
scientists and horticulturists.