Pioneering American wine : writings of Nicholas Herbemont, master viticulturist / edited by David S. Shields.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Maxims; Part Two. Treatises; An Essay on the Culture of the Grape Vine, and Making of Wine; Suited for the United States, and More Particularly for the Southern States (January-July 1828); Wine Making (January 23, 1833); Part Three. Published Letters on Grape Growing and Wine Making; Requisites for Success in Grape Cultivation (January 22, 1820); Acculturation of French Vines (December 6, 1822); On the Culture of the Grape (August 20, 1826); On the Use of Sugar in Making Wine (August 27, 1826).

Speech to the Agricultural Society of S.C. on the Benefits of Publicly-Sponsored Grape Cultivation (February 17, 1827)Memorial to the Senate of South Carolina (December 1826); Domestic Wine (December 23, 1826); American Wine (January 18, 1828); Pruning Grape Vines (April 20, 1828); Letter to Nicholas Longworth on the Grape Vine (March 19, 1829); Cultivation of the Grape (August 12, 1829); Letter to Edward Stabler on Wine-Making (September 9, 1829); On the Proper Distance for Planting a Vineyard (December 7, 1829); Pruning Frost-Nipped Vines (March 22, 1830).

On the Culture of the Grape Vine, with Observations on the Practice Recommended by Various Writers (March 30, 1830)Letter to an Alabama Planter (July 9, 1830); On the Formation of Vine-Yards of Native Vines, and the Ingrafting of Grape-Vines (September 4, 1830); Table Grapes (October 26, 1830); Herbemont's Madeira (May 27, 1831); Observations on the Rot of the Grape, and Grafting of Foreign Vines on Native Stocks (September 4, 1831); Afflictions (September 24, 1831); Letter to George Fitzhugh, Jr. (September 2, 1832); Observations on the Planting of the Vine and Rot in Grapes (May 28, 1833).

Letter to Edmund Ruffin (November 18, 1833)On the Causes of Failure in Vine Culture and Wine Making (November 15, 1834); Origin of "Herbemont's Madeira" Grape (February 1835); Difference of the Growth, Culture, and Product of Grape Vines, in the United States and in Europe (April 29, 1836); On the Suitableness of Warm Climates for Wine Making (February 15, 1837); Grape Culture in South Carolina (September 9, 1837); Letter to Sidney Weller on Grape and Silk Culture (March 8, 1838); Part Four. Agrarian Essays.

Observations Suggested by the Late Occurrences in Charleston, by a Member of the Board of Public Works, of the State of South-Carolina (1822)Address to the President and Members of the United Agricultural Society of South-Carolina, at Their Sitting in Columbia (December 1, 1828); Honesty Is the Best Policy (March 1832); On the Moral Discipline and Treatment of Slaves (February 1836); Bibliographical Essay; Bibliography of Primary Sources on Wine Making in America, 1810-1840; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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