15.0 Memoir on the Vineyards and f Vines of Champagne, 



Livres. 



best wine. The fining of these wines being iftost 



expensive - - * - r «- 30 



For the two other pieces three livres only - 6 



Annual interest of the money laid out for the 



ground, &c. - - - - 100 



Taxes, &c. 72 



Labour, &c., as above » • - 308 



516 



First resujt - r - r r 550 



From which deduct as above - - r 516 



Net produce of an acre of vineyard in middling years 34 

 We may easily perceive that the net produce cannot b£ 

 estimated upon very just and rigorous data, as the wines of 

 Ay, Hautvillers, Epernay, and Pierry, fetch from 200 to 

 400 livres each piece ; and a mean price must be fixed for 

 all the other classes of Champagne wines, which sell for 

 00 up to 200 livres. 



It follows from this statement, that, without great indus- 

 try, a proprietor can derive but a small profit, who is obliged 

 to sell annually in the cask the produce of his vines ; the 

 rich proprietor only, who can afford to put his wines into 

 bottles, and keep them for two or three years, can depend 

 upon a certain and real profit. 



In what Manner is the Vine planted in the Mountain P 

 The vines are planted differently m the mountain and on 

 the banks of the river. The greater part of the vine-growers, 

 who have contracted habits which they will not give up, 

 notwithstanding the inconveniences which they are every 

 day aware of, plant their vines in March only : the shoots 

 they use are either produced from the tall vines which have 

 keen beaten, and which have very few roots, or from other 

 plants which spring up among the low vines at the moment 

 of cutting the vines, and which have also very few roots, 

 since they are procured from stalks that have lain on the 

 ground since the commencement of the season. 



[To be continued.] 



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