 The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture eventually decided the cost of printing the monograph with the illustrations would be prohibitive, so it was never published in its intended form.However, Munson went on to use the text he wrote as the foundation for his 1909 book "Foundations of American Grape Culture", regarded as one of the founding texts of American grape breeding and widely referenced even today.Instead of Prestele's watercolors, it was illustrated with photographs.