Gf TvJL£a^^ VVVv'COa^cr.A ""3 Cn^CCvi CV-VVKJlL/\^\ O^^d , (VviL-CW ^ CX.'MlJlXAjIL, .^;jUu,-'>^.C. ... Class __ Sl6^ If fact it be, taken in connection with another, viz., that the immaculate Saviour of mankind turned water into wine at the wedding-feast, it surely ought to silence those self-sufficient and narrow-minded bigots who cry out against the morality of grape-growing and wine-making. // is, of course, a new industry in the lYezv Wor/d, but in the last few years has been making headway with the strides of a giant, and bids fair, at a no distant day, not only to drive the refuse stuffs of the foreign vineyardist out of our own markets, but to compete with him in neutral ones, if not in those under the shadow of his own vine. For generations its introduction and development were retarded in our country by the ex cathedra scoff of the Old-World culturist, that ivine could under no circumstances be made on this side of the Atlantic, and the implicit credence given the statement by would-be beginners in the experiment, as well as by wine- drinkers themselves, who had to be educated up to the point of impartial trial, and to put their own palate on the witness- stand, instead of placing implicit reliance on the damnatory verdict of an adverse and partial jury. That point has now been reached, and it is a great point gained. According to the "Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics," published by the United-States Government, the amount of native wines con- sumed in this country is over twenty-five per cent of all that is TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. used ; and the supply and the demand are increasing with acceler- ated speed. Whilst there is undoubtedly a certain class of Americans, sui gcjicris, who prefer to set up as cojiuoissenrs, and who, to maintain their self-complacent assumption of superior taste, will persist in being cajoled and "put upon" by foreign pretenders, and native dealers in foreign wares, nevertheless, the great bulk of our people are too practical, common-sensed, and matter-of-fact to continue to take forever foreign notables or foreign wares at the exorbitant valuation which they put upon themselves and their products. A little while back it was impossible to get a bot- tle of native wine at any of the high-priced and fashionable eating-houses of the large cities. Now few of them can afford to be without them. The repeated demand of their customers for a pure, low-priced native beverage has remedied the omission on their shelves. Doubtless another reason for the result stated is the constantly diminishing European supply, owing to the ravages of that con- stantly increasing pest of the Old-World vines, previously referred to as "phylloxera," which are rapidly sweeping out of existence the old recognized source of supply. This tiny insect, which attacks the young rootlets of the vine in myriads, denudes them of their bark, and leaves them to die a lingering death. Already whole districts heretofore devoted exclusively to wine-culture have been virtually abandoned for that purpose. Governments have offered immense rewards for a remedy, but all in vain ; and the old proprietors are now driven to the necessity of introducing native American vines of the heretofore by them despised custivalis family, which are phylloxera-proof, owing to their thin coating of bark, upon which the insect can make no headway. If they can make a wine out of our own grapes, the question may well be asked, "Why can zve not do it ivith educated labor?'' George TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Hussman, high authority, predicts that in ten years the European or Asiatic grape will virtually cease to exist. Why, too, should we not then transfer this rich argosy, or rather this close mo- nopoly, to our own shores, and hereafter furnish the Old-World folk with drink, as we are now doing, to a considerable extent, with meat and bread ? Mr. Nicholas Longworth, the true father of American viticul- ture, stated over thirty years ago that our own State, North Carolina, was the normal habitat of the vine on the western hemisphere, the natural vineyard of the continent. SJioiild not the goveriivicnt encourage the effort ? Such we hold to be its duty no less than its interest. The wine- grower demands no prohibitory protection against foreign compe- tition, although representing an industry but yet in its infancy. Natural causes will soon do that. But he thinks he has the right to demand that unnatural restriction, such as license-tax from the retailer, should straightway be abolished, as calculated to hamper and curtail his sales to that class. There is no good reason w^hy it should be retained. By detaching it from the same category with distilled spirits, the sale of these last would not be per- ceptibly affected, and hence neither would the revenue from that source. Why, then, the question may well be asked, should this manufac- tured product of the soil be subject to invidious tax more than the products from sorghum, jute, hemp, or oil-seeds } No better reason than existing usage can be assigned for the retention of such an unjust and unwise excise. It has been estimated that the people of this country are taxed indirectly no less tJian tzvelve Jiundred and fifty mi/lions aiinnally to encourage the manufacturing interests of the land. If their juvenility can justify the claim to govern- mental protection to such an inconceivable extent, surely this other and newer industry may demand in common equity, both for itself TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. and for the sake of national prosperity, that all restrictive legisla- tion as affecting itself shall at least be abrogated. The vine first loomed into importance in the New World on the banks of the Ohio, although the Spanish Jesuits had cultivated it extensively a century or two before in New Mexico and California. To-day it occupies a prominent place amongst the leading indus- tries of Ohio, Missouri, Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. North Carolina has been laggard in its develop- ment, although the birth State of many of the most approved varieties, and especially of the grape prodigy previously spoken of as "the Scuppernong," whose discovery is coeval with Caucasian rule on the continent. It is essentially a tropical, or rather semi- tropical, plant, and will not flourish north of 36° 30' north latitude, and, unlike too many of Carolina's sons, prefers its native State to any other. Its fruit fresh from the vine is conceded, by nearly all who have ever tried it, to be one of the most delicious in the world. It is one which grows upon the palate, and increases in popularity upon better acquaintance. Besides its nutritive and palatable attributes, it is conceded, by all who know it, to possess high medicinal properties, and is so recommended by the medical faculty, on account of its aperient and diuretic qualities. The same is true of its wine, when properly made, and not degraded into a sirup by the profuse artificial addition of sugar. The celebrated chemist and scientist. Dr. Jackson of Boston, in a report of his published by the United-States Government a few years ago, predicts with undoubting assurance that in no distant future it will be admitted to be, " not only the wine-grape of America, but the wine-grape of the world." When that day arrives, the wild vine discovered by the bold adventurers sent out by the gifted and godlike Raleigh will have become of greater commercial and economic value to the State whose capital town bears his name, than the wonderful weed to whose soothing infla- TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. ence he became the slave, as has the world after him, — " that noxious plant," which in spite of the ridicule of philosophers, the curse of kings, the interdict of parliaments, and the anathema of popes, is to-day of more universal use than any other named one in the vegetable kingdom. These are " the words of soberness and truth," although the subject is vinous. We are willing to stake our reputation as a prophet upon it. A generation or two hence, at most, will render verdict indicated. The prediction is predicated no less upon its already recognized merits than upon the necessity of the case. As the natural production of the Old World is curtailed by cause over which the vintner has no con- trol, the law of demand will necessitate it. A bona fide, genuine wine of long-recognized attributes is to-day inadequate to supply Xht present home demand, leaving the future out of account, and ignoring the foreign market. Where demand outstrips supply, be the commodity what it may, one of two results must follow ; viz., enhanced price, or a spurious article. Notwithstanding the annual and accelerated diminution of yield, the price, all things consid- ered, is no higher than it was a quarter of a century ago (for foreign wines). This conceded, is it not patent that a counterfeit article must have supplanted the old-time honest one, not only to meet existing home demand, but more especially to satisfy the craving of alien idiots, who will be content with nothing else than an "imported article " .-• Adulteration. — Does any doubt the ramified and pernicious extent to which it has of late years been carried .^ If any there be so credulous and besotted as to believe that label or bottle is index of contents, and who plumeth himself that he is drinking the juice of the Asiatic grape whilst he sips his Moselle, his Rhine, Marsala, or Douro, let him ask himself the question, and answer from the presumptive stand-point. If that is not conclusive, leav- ing facts and data out of question, we propose to call but a single TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. witness to the stand out of the thousand and one who might be subpoenaed to estabhsh the point at issue. The " Journal. des Debats," being Frcuch, may well be considered an impartial wit- ness, or, if biassed at all, to be so in behalf of the native producer instead of the foreign consumer. See what it says as culled from a late copy of "The London Times." If, after reading it, any still prefers to drink the vile decoctions palmed off on an unsuspecting world, then all that can be said is, that there is no accounting for taste. If convinced of the abomi- nation, does it not behoove him to be very cautious of foreign wines .'' If, after being convinced by such unimpeachable evidence, he still persists in clinging to his high-priced Sauterne, Champagne, or Hungary, then may it be said of him, as was said of another in other days, " Ephraim is joined to his idols : let him alone." If the question be asked. Whence any better assurance of purity in native than in foreign wines .-* the answer would naturally be, Lower price holds out less incentive to adulterating rascality. Besides, the American producer, being comparatively a new be- ginner, is not up to " the tricks of the trade " of the Old-World culturist. The most harmless counterfeit wine which Europe sends us is the native American, which is palmed off under foreign labels to an ever credulous public at two or three times the original price. As long as fools can be found to set such value upon the impress of a cork, or the lettering of a card, it will not be otherwise. But call the French witness, and let us hear what he has to say : — " The Adulteration of Wine. — A question which greatly interests the producers of wine, but more especially the consumers of wine, in France, is now attracting public attention and the press. Sev- eral among the wine-merchants of Paris have held a great meeting at the Cirque d'Hiver, under the presidency of M. Duvergier, who made a very long speech, in which he did his best to defend the wine-trade from the accusations springing from all sides against TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. the poisonous liquid sold for wine. The writing of M. Henri de Parville, which has appeared in the scientific fcnillcton of the 'Journal des Debats,' will not encourage people to drink what is now sold for French wine. He says, 'The fabrication and adulter- ation of the wine commences when the liquid is prepared, to render it clear, and apt for preservation. Previous to its Alteration, it is mixed with albumen, gelatine, blood, and milk. These substances agree with the tannin, and are used to modify some wines. Some- times the tannin is not sufficient, and is replaced by other poisonous ingredients. Very often "alum," a strong poison, is added to give the wine a flavored taste. In order to obtain the flavor to which the palate of foreign consumers, and especially of the English and American, is accustomed, oxide of lead is added to destroy the acidity. Alcohols produced from corn are added to increase its strength. Arsenic, sulphuric acid, and tartaric acid are added to give it color.' The writer dwells at length on the subject ; and his revelations have quite startled the Parisians, and ought to startle the British public, who are one of the greatest consumers of these poisonous drinks. After pointing to the immense damage done to public health by the wine-manufacturers of France, the ' Intransiegeant ' declares that it cares far more for the health of the public than the reputation of the P^rench wine-trade, and con- cludes, ' What interests us most in this question is not the wine- traders but the consumers. The " honor of the trade " has neither palate nor stomach, nor father, mother, wife, and children ; " honor of the trade" knows nothing of inflammation of the bowels, and nobody has seen the aforesaid "honor" die from the effects of colic. The worst agonies of this "honor of the trade " will always be more insignificant than the mildest pains supported by the last of the consumers. Therefore, at a time when not one of the pub- lic administration fulfils its duties, in which incorruptibility is noth- ing but a dream, in which it is no longer monstrous to be monstrous, 27 TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. we feel it our duty to congratulate the Laboratoire Municipal on its courage for refusing its protection to the poisoners of the people.' " — London Times. PRICE-LIST. WINES IN WOOD. White Sweet Scuppernong White Dry Scuppernong Red Sweet Scuppernong Red Dry Scuppernong White Sweet Delaware White Dry Delaware Red Sweet Meisch Red Dry Meisch . White Sweet Tokay Red Sweet Concord Red Dry Concord Carolina Rose Claret . . Port . . . Sherry . . Muscatel . Sacramental PER GAL. $1 oo I oo I oo I oo I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 I 00 I 25 I 25 I 25 I 00 WINES IN GLASS. PER DOZ. • U 50 • 4 50 • 4 50 • 4 50 • 5 00 White Sweet Scuppernong, 6's White Dry Scuppernong, 6's . Red Sweet Scuppernong, 6's . Red Dry Scuppernong, 6's . . White Sweet Delaware, 6's White Dry Delaware, 6's .... 5 00 Red Sweet Meisch, 6's 5 00 Red Dry Meisch, 6's 5 00 White Sweet Tokay, 6's 5 00 Red Sweet Concord, 6's 5 00 Red Dry Concord, 6's 5 00 Carolina Rose, 6's 5 00 Claret, 6's 4 50 Port, 6's 5 00 Sherry, 6's 5 00 Muscatel, 6's 5 00 Sacramental, 6's 4 5° Champagne (quarts) 9 00 Champagne (2 doz. pints.). . . . 10 00 TO PURCHASERS. IVe warrajit our Szoeet IViiies not to turn sour on draught. Our Dry Wines in wood (ire the same prices as the Szveet ; but we cannot zoarrant them against turning sour on draught, and, if ordered in wood, are always sent at purchaser'' s risk. No light Dty Wines, either native or foreign, will keep on draught, hence, if ordered in wood, should be bottled. No charge for package if ordered by the barrel. If in less (juantity than a barrel, one dollar for each package taill be charged. We spare no pains or expense to make our wiues of a standard and uniform quality, and trust you will favor us with your orders. Orders will be filled promptly. A liberal discount to the trade. Verv respectfully, "W. J. GREEN. EXTRACTS United States Consular Reports. We deem a few extracts from the able and exhaustive Report of Hon. Thomas Wilson, consul at Nantes, France, entirely apposite to the subject. (See Reports from the Consuls of the United States, No. 27, January, 1883.) ". . . This portion of this Report is intended to deal with this question in its relation to French wines and liquors, to show that they have been adulterated, have been made deleterious, if not poisonous, and as such exported to foreign countries, the United States among the rest, and, if the policy of reprisal should be adopted, that French wines and liquors as at present ;;/rt;-?/{Azr///;r^ would be a proper subject. . . . Every- body knows or says that the wines and liquors of France are adulterated, and they deprecate it ; but the consumption and use of the adulterated article go on much the same as if no adultera- tion existed. I shall endeavor to give some information from statistics furnished by French authorities, and so not to be con- troverted, showing the extent to which this adulteration is carried, and in some slight degree its effect upon the people. "... France is the greatest wine-producing country in the world. The total production and commerce in wine for 1882 amounted to 2,056,692,491 francs (about $410,000,000). . . . TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. "In 1879 commenced seriously the ravages of the national plague, — the phylloxera. Without study, one cannot appreciate the extent of the ravages, nor the great damage this inflicted on France. In 1879-80 it utterly destroyed 1,250,000 acres of full- bearing vines. It seriously damaged about 1,250,000 acres more. It reduced the wine-crop to 25,000,000 hectoliters in 1879, being a loss of about 800,000,000 of gallons, to say nothing of Eau de vie, Cognac, etc. [Note. — Observe the traffic in the article before and since this tremendous diminution of supply began, and say does it indicate a healthy source .-• — Ed.] Total Export of Wines and Liquors. 1877 . . . . . . . Francs, 285,800,000 1881 ....... Francs, 332,300,000 " Yet this immense failure of from five hundred to eight hun- dred millions of gallons, continued year after year, has had no perceptible effect ^n the quantity of wine drunk, the facility with which it can be obtained, nor the price to be paid for it. [See figures above.] . . . How has this great feat been accomplished } The recuperative power of France, after one year's war with Germany, and her ability to make the most out of the least, was at once the wonder and the admiration of the world ; but in the case of failure of the wine-crop she has shown unexpected recu- perative power, and the ability to continue it for an indefinite period. " How has she been able to accomplish it, — this secret of mak- ing something out of nothing .^ Answer. They have imported in large quantities the cheap, heavy wines of Spain and Italy. They have imported raisins from Greece and Turkey, soaked them, and expressed the juice ; and to these bases they add alcohol, TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. coloring matter, and water in all imaginable proportions, kinds, quantities, and degrees ; and thus they manufacture what they call wine, sell for wine, and export to the United States for wine. "Family Secrets. — The president of the tariff commission, Monsieur Pouzer-Quertier, made a speech (in the Senate), in which he set forth the true condition of France, and appealed to his colleagues to meet the tariff question fairly. He said, p. 133, 'I have seen on the quays of Bordeaux, and I believe I can see the same to-day, a quantity of wines of Spain which had come to the borders of the Garonne. I asked of the Bordelais, if, per- chance, these wines, worth only eighty or eighty-five francs per hectoliter, had not come to Bordeaux to breathe the air of Garonne, and be transformed into Mcdoc. '"This represents a certain benefit; for one must admit that this wine contains alcohol to fifteen degrees, and that, with one barrel of it and one of the water of tJie Garonne, they make tzvo barrels of zaine.' At this, the minister of agriculture and commerce takes fire. Hear him. ' I remark to the Hon. M. Pouzer-Quertier, that it is a singular fashion to defend the industries of a great country like France to come here and tell, apropos of our wines, of the melanges which are made with the water, the mixing . . . [prot- estations from divers benches], and to come here to thus dis- credit IN THIS TRIBUNE THE FRENCH PRODUCTS DESTINED FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES. " 'In truth it is a singnlar fashion for Jiini to proceed [more inter- ruptions]. You understand that since two or three years, either from phylloxera, from frost, or from dropping of the fruit, we have descended from an annual production of sixty million hectoliters to twenty-eight million. It is incontestable that we have not produced the same quantity of wine ; and, althongh zve may add ivater, it is still necessary to seek in foreign countries that which TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. we have lost.' " Mr. Wilson continues, ""I have shown enough to raise a presumption of its wholesale Diainifactnrc. "I have shown, (i) the failure of the crop sufficient to produce a famine ; (2) no diminution in either consumption or exportation ; (3) no corresponding increase in price ; (4) an immense increase in importation of the (known to be) heavy wines of Spain and Italy ; and (5) the entire making of the crop of raisin-wine, the two latter being in sufficient quantities in the aggregate to make good the deficit ; (6) that the charge of this wholesale manufacture was made publicly in the Senate of France, and several senators shouted, in support of it, that ' all the world knew it to be so ; ' (7) the minister of agriculture and commerce, replying to the senator, did not deny the charge, but upbraided the senator for making it, and said, if it was true, it had its justification. ... A French chemist once said, ' Wine is a mixture of alcohol and sugar and water ; but,' added he, ' mixing alcohol and sugar and water will not make wine.' . . . Wine has been falsified and adul- terated in all ages ; but, until twenty years ago, it was done so clumsily, that its detection was easy. Most wine-dealers would detect it by the taste, or, if not, at the expense of a piece of cream- of-tartar. " All this has been changed. Now the falsificators profit by and make use of all the progress of modern chemistry ; and the art of making wine zvitJioiit the juice of the grape has attained such a degree of perfection and skill, that experts, epicures, and chemists alike are baffled, and hesitate before pronouncing. "M. Girard, director of the Laboratoire Municipal at Paris, prob- ably the foremost authority in Europe or the world, says in his official report, amongst other things denunciatory of wholesale adulteration, ' After attempting to pass a large quantity of water under the name of wine, they add to the nionillage the alcohol of an inferior quality of potatoes or beets, which contains alcohol TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. AMYLiouE, which produccs a drunkenness far worse than that pro- duced by the alcohol of wine. These, with all their ramifications, are not the only falsifications : the body, the aroma, the bouquet, of the finest qualities of grand wines, are imitated on a large scale by scientific process. . . . Each day the chemist is met by new difficulties. He is obliged to labor without cessation to per- fect his methods to combat those who dishonor science by using her to perpetrate frauds.' "... This inspection was principally for wines colored with fucJisinc, it being known or determined that no combination of that article but vj^ls poisono?ts. The result of that inspection was as follows : — Number of establishments inspected, 300 : number of hectoliters confis- cated, 3,307 (or about 85,000 gallons), all being wine, fiichsiiie ; proportion of samples found dad, 59 to 17 per cent ; not poison, 2,309 samples ; poison, 977 samples. "Can it be wondered that 'insanity from alcoholisni has in- creased from seven to fourteen per cent,' or double .'' " — Report of Minister of Justice. These extracts tally entirely with the reports of the consuls at La Rochelle and other wine ports of France. If forty per cent of the wines sold in Paris are poisonous, as per report of Inspector, is it not safe to assume that at least an equal proportion of that exported to foreign countries properly ranks under the same head .'' [New- York Evening Post, Feb. 9.] CALIFORNIA WINES. The trade journals are again directing attention to the fact that a large proportion of wine sold in this country as foreign wine is produced in California, and sold in bottles labelled with imitation TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. foreign labels. A Beaver-street wine-merchant said yesterday, in speaking of the matter, "The chief trouble is, that the middle- men, the wholesale wine-merchants, who buy from the wine-maker, and sell to the retailer, are interested in keeping up the deception ; because by means of it they are enabled to buy cheap, and sell dear. It is to their advantage to cry down American wines as inferior to foreign products ; and, when one tries to sell American wines for what they really are, he finds more opposition from the men who sell American wines under foreign names than from the few houses which really deal in foreign products. Every possible trick is resorted to for the purpose of disguising the fact that the wine sold is California wine. Even in San Francisco, where some local pride might be expected to help the sale of native wines, they are bottled, and sold largely with French labels, some being imitations of labels of celebrated houses, and others being more innocent of deception, because they do not steal trade-marks." Since the passage of an Act imposing a fine of five hundred dollars for selling wine with forged labels, the fraud is carried on more carefully ; and cases of bottles are sent by wine-merchants to retail dealers without labels, and the labels are sent separately, and are pasted on according to the demands of customers. One case of American wine can by this system make a label do service for half a dozen French brands. In nine cases out of ten, according to a letter recently published in the " Wine and Fruit Grower," what is sold as French wine in California is made there. The immense profit in deception is what keeps it up. The effect is detrimental to wine-makers, who do not reap any advantage from the increased consumption of their wines. I have seen in the bottling-rooms of California wine-merchants small mountains of bottles, out of which very few could be picked which were not ornamented with spurious labels. The manager of an establish- ment said to me, " These bottles come from all parts of the State. TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, H.C. You see that they all have foreign labels, and doubtless their contents were sold as imported wine." Taking up a' bottle indis- criminately, I read such labels as " Cantenac Medoc, 1864, D. Misett, Bordeaux;" " Margaud Medoc, F. Keppler & Cie, Bor- deaux." A San Francisco bottle of Sauterne was branded on the cork, "Pouget Fils, Bordeaux." It was a genuine bottle, and had a San Francisco label of " Cantenac, Pouget Fils, Bordeaux." On a California-made bottle was a label of what purported to be Ger- man Hock. " Rouen Thaler, F. Weller & Co., Maenz," was stuck on a Fench Claret bottle. An imitation of a Chateau La Rose label could be bought in San Francisco at seven dollars a thousand. There might be read on a good many a facsimile of the " Due de Montebello." The label might be seen on a California bottle, and on another a label of an imaginary firm, " E. Blossiear & Cie, Rhiems." A dealer in nothing but California wines, who sells them as such, and is trying to educate the public taste to like it under its true name, said the California wine-blenders have themselves to thank for the present conditions of affairs. Instead of devoting themselves to making a pure wine, they attempted to try all kinds of devices to imitate European wines in color and flavor, and thus played directly into the hands of the importers. As to the fact that an enormous quantity of California wine is sold under foreign labels, there is no doubt of it whatever. Any wine-merchant will admit that not one-twentieth of the wine sold to consumers in this country in 1880 was sold as American. Four hundred and fifty thousand gallons were sold in one month to foreign importing houses in this city, — a hundred thousand gallons to a Spanish firm, who would deny point blank having any thing to do with such " stuff " as American wine. The only remedy is for wine-producers to establish their own agencies, and create a demand for native wines. TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. [American Wine and Grape Grower.] AMERICAN WINES. If there were needed any sufificient reason for Americans to look with favor upon the products of their own native vineyards, and with disfavor upon foreign wines, the fact that our wines are the pure juice of the grape, and foreign wines impure and sophis- ticated abominations, should furnish that reason. American wine- manufacture is a new art, but even at this early day our product has reached to one-half of our consumption. Last year we made six million gallons, and imported precisely the same quantity. Un- fortunately, so persistently prejudiced are the American people in favor of imported foreign products, that the greater part of the American-made wines are sold as choice foreign kinds, with false brands upon them. The bulk of the real foreign wines is vastly inferior. But " who hath believed our report " when we have reiterated time and again this fact .' And now we have some fresh evidence of the same sort, only, so to speak, "more so." It comes from foreign parts, and is imported direct from Paris, and should therefore be received at least with as much confidence as the French wines themselves. This report, taken from statistics of the Paris Municipal Laboratory, where the food analyses required by law are made, shows among other facts that in the month of June 455 samples of wine were examined; and of these but 14 were found to be good, 123 were reported tolerable, and 318 bad. Of 455 samples, but 14 were good. If the French people thus treat themselves, what consideration might a foreigner expect, and how many samples of real imported wines (excluding the American sold for foreign) might be found to be even tolerable, and without any distinct shade of goodness at all ? TOKAY VINEYARD, FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. [New- York Star, June 9, 1S83.] BAD WINE. It appears that the consumption of wine in England has fallen off four and a half million gallons in seven years. In 1876 it amounted to eighteen and a half million gallons ; but last year it had dropped to fourteen million. The chief cause of this marked decline is said to be the deterioration of the wines in quality. They are doctored too much. The adulterations are not only deleterious, but patent and offensive. It has been said more than once in England, that it would be impossible to get pure Port wine, were a man to see it made at the vineyard, and shipped for home, riding all the way on the head of the cask. However that may be, the fact that many of the costly wines of England are badly adulterated is well known there and here ; while the cheap wines fare better, because it does not pay to adulterate them. It would be strange indeed if the adulteration of wines and liquors should stop their sale, and encourage temperance. But the facts look in that direction. PRESS OF RAND, AVERY, & CO.. BOSTON, MASS. .M