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, botanically speaking, there is but one species of the wine yielding vine, (vitis vinifera) because the specific characters are such only as are always renewable by seed, yet the differences among its varieties are so great, as to make a notice of these not the least interesting, or important part of a treatise on their culture.

It is, however, a division of the work on which I enter with the greatest diffidence, not only on account of the diversity of opinions I find among the French writers, but of the unsatisfactory conclusion to which they all appear to me to have come.

It seems to be now agreed among botanists, that "the only genuine reproduction of the species of plants, is by seeds, all plants propagated by cuttings, layers, or buds, having a determinate