Excerpt from The Grape Culturist: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Native GrapeNow my publishers inform me that the original plates are worn out, by long and continued use, and that the book must be reset or relegated to that bourn, known to the trade as out of print, and where so many of my worthy contemporaries have found a resting place during the past three decades of grape culture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.