Excerpt from A Treatise on the Vine: Embracing Its History From the Earliest Ages to the Present Day, With Descriptions of Above Two Hundred Foreign, and Eighty American Varieties; Together With a Complete Dissertation on the Establishment, Culture, and Management of Vineyards Another great benefit which will result from an assiduous improvement of our national resources, is that it must permanently secure to us the balance of trade; the prompt tendency of which will be to produce a return of all our public stocks now held in Europe, the interest on which is annually draining from us an enor meus taxation on our labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.