24 ^^ i^^ Cuhi^alhrt fif ^he- vine, 



coricic? fixe? I his period a* the^ feventl> year, as a mean term* 

 According to Galen and Athenaeus, Falernlan wine was never 

 drmkj in general, iintif it had attam^rd the age of teti years, 

 and ne^'er after the Age of ttventv. The Alb^in wines requifed 

 the age of twenty years, the Suri'entinc twenty-five, &c. " 

 Macrabiiis relates that Cicero, being at fnpper with Dami- 

 fi^pus, was treated with FaleViiian wine of forty years, which 

 Cicero praifed by obfcrving that it bor« its age well : betie^ 

 inquk, t^tatem firt. Pliny fpeaks of wine ferved up at th^- 

 table cJf Caligula which was more than i6o years old. Hofaee' 

 celebrates wine of a hundred leaves, &c. 



I. On IV'me conJuUred in regard io Qliniale^ Soil, Expofure, 

 Seafons, Culture, C^c. 



ift. Climate. — All chmates are not proper for the cultiva- 

 tion of the vine : if tins plant feems to vegetate with vigour 

 jn the northern climates, it is certain that the fruit can never 

 there acquire a fufficient degree of maturity; and it is an in- 

 variable truth, that bcyofid the 50th degree of latitude the 

 juice of (he grape cannot experieuce that fermentation w'hich 

 converts it into ^qegreeabl^ beyerage. 



The CAfe with the vine in regard to climate is the fame as 

 with other vegetable produ(:l:ions. We find towards thef 

 north a vigorous vegetation, plants well nourifhed, ^nd fuc- 

 culent ; while the fouth exhibits produftions charged with 

 aroma, reiin, and volatile oil ; here every thing is converted 

 intofpirit, thctxi every thing, is employed to produce Jlrenglb, 

 Thefe chara6lers, fo ftriking in vegetation, occur in the phae- 

 noDjena of animalifation ; where Jpirii and fenjihility feem to 

 be appendages of the fouthern climates, while Jlrength feems 

 to be the attribute of the inhabitant of the north. 



Travellers in England have, obferved that fome of the infipid 

 vegetables of Greenland acquire tafte and fmell in the gar- 

 dens near London. Rcynier found that the melilot, which 

 has a ftrong penetrating fmell in warm climates, retained 

 none in Holland. Every body knows that the highly fubtile 

 poifon of certain plants and animals is fucceffively blunted 

 or extingiiifiied in the individuals reared in climates lying 

 further towards .the north. 



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