This comprehensive guide to grape cultivation and winemaking offers a wealth of practical advice and information for anyone interested in growing grapes and making wine. Written specifically with California growers in mind, this book is an essential reference for anyone involved in the wine industry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Hyatt's Hand-book Of Grape Culture: Or, Why, Where, When And How To Plant And Cultivate A Vineyard, Manufacture Wines, Etc., Especially Adapted To The State Of California. As, Also, To The United States, Generally 2 Thomas Hart Hyatt A. L. Bancroft & company, 1876 Viticulture; Vitis; Wine and wine making

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... PART XVI. MISCELLANT VINICULTURAL. No fever and ague where the grape succeeds well; raisins in Sacramento County; B. N. Bugbey's vineyard; extensive vineyard in Napa; Samuel Brannan's; wine as a substitute for strong drink; the New York Journal of Commerce's opinion thereon; California fruit for the World's Fair; how put up; American wines; Ohio vintage; a German vintager's success in Iowa; profits of grape culture in Illinois; Ohio Lake Shore vineyards; the varieties of the grape they plant; diseases of; extent of the Lake Shore grape region; grape growing enterprize in Virginia; preservation of fruit; report of the Northern Ohio and Lake Shore Grape Growers' Association; curative qualities 4>f the grape; trouble in the French vineyards; wine crop of France; French wines; Hock vineyards of Germany. As there are some matters connected with grape culture that did not seem to come very appropriately under either of the preceding Parts of our Work, we devote to them a separate chapter, as the closing Part of our Book. California Items. No Grapes in Fever and Ague Districts.--Grapes are not only wholesome as an article of food, but the thrifty growth of the vine is an indication of a healthy climate and neighborhood. In the chapter of George Husmann's excellent work " On the Cultivation of the Native Grape," wherein he treats of the soil and locations for vineyards, he states that " he was much struck by the force of a remark made by a medical friend last summer, when, in consequence of the continual rains, the ague was very prevalent." It was this: " Wherever you find the ague an habitual guest with the inhabitants you need not look for healthy grape vines." The Prairie Farmer, published at Chicngo, thinks there is " something in...

The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture. Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.