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From the beginning of CHAPTER II. MAKING A CHANGE. Twelve years have passed since I planted my first vine. I commenced under difficulties, and have met with some discouragements. But my labor and perseverance have been well rewarded in the success which I have attained. To be sure, I might have reached the same results in half the time had I commenced with a better knowledge of my subject. Many errors into which I have fallen might have been avoided, and needless expenditures of time and money saved. In looking back upon my experience, I can now see where better methods might have been pursued. I can see wherein a little 'knowledge might have saved many losses, and much discouragement. The information which would have enabled me to avoid these losses, I believe I can now impart to others. Nothing, it is true, can in any business take the place of experience-; but we can frequently, when commencing a new enterprise, so far avail ourselves of the experience of others as to materially affect the success which we may attain. In making this record of my experience, I disclaim all efforts at fine writing. My only aim will be to give the facts in the case, in the simplest and plainest language I can command. When I first took, up rural pursuits as my vocation, I \vas not altogether unacquainted with the theories and principles which pertain to them. From my boyhood, I have always had a great fondness for gardening, and all labor incident to country life. When learning my trade in the village printing office, I took great delight in reading all the agricultural and horticultural exchanges. My companion apprentice. Bob, as we called him then, always thought it stupid to read papers of that kind, preferring, for himself, to follow up with great care all political controversies, and taking great delight at the complete summersaults which expert politicians (in those days) sometimes found it convenient to make. Many of these horticultural publications I took possession of, by permission of the editor, and carefully preserved. I now consider them one of the important features of my little library....

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