Journal of Agriculture. 



[ii April, 1910. 



Baron Hippolyte de Lesser classed the different lands of the department 

 as follows : — 



Rocks, rough country [terre» vatjiies), &c 



Land tit for plough .. 



Vineyards ... 



Forests 



Roads, streams, ponds 



Olive orchards 



Fields (permanent pastures) ... 



Gardens 



Salt works ... 



Buildings ... 



Navigation canals 



Irrisjation canals 



Since that time, the area under vines has considerably increased. It, 

 of course, underwent a large reduction owing to the ravages of Phylloxera, 

 but the ground then lost has since been regained, with the result that the 



2. THE MAIN BUILDING, MONTPELLIER SCHOOL. 



vine now occupies 459,582 acres (183.833 hectares) or nearly one-third 

 of the total area of the department and nearly two-thirds of the total 

 arable land. There is no other region in the world where the culture 

 of the vine occupies so exclusive a position. From the river Aude, on 

 the west, to the Vidourle, on the east, a distance of nearly 70 miles, the 

 country is one continuous vineyard, varying in width, but, as seen from the 

 railway line which connects Marseilles with the Spani.sh frontier, present- 

 ing, during the summer months, a continuous mass of green, onlv broken 

 here and there by occasional barren rocks or patches of land unfit for 

 anv culture. 



