58 INTRODUCTION. 



gard'such advantages when fairly at command; 

 and though in adopting the different systems of 

 European cultivation, no certain reliance can be 

 had that results in our climate and soils will be 

 the same; prudence will dictate the selection 

 of such a position, in the establishment of 

 the vineyard, as shall afford to the new plan- 

 tation, a combination of the different advan- 

 tages of which we have spoken. These are 

 at last experiments, and should not deter those 

 from the cultivation whose farms do not com- 

 bine all these points. In the Canton of Vaud, 

 the districts not possessing all the advantages 

 found at La Vaux, produce in their vine grounds, 

 (the soil of many of which is as barren as steri- 

 lity itself) their different wines, which inferior 

 as they may be, are yet the staple of the country, 

 and give to such waste lands a value exceeding 

 that of their richest grass. 



The " Vin de la Cote," produced on the bor- 

 ders of the lake, between Merges and Geneva, 

 is the production of that part of the country, 

 next in estimation to those of La Vaux, which, 

 though not so spirituous as those of the latter, 

 appears to suffer less from foreign transportation, 

 and is exported to Holland, England, and occa- 

 sionally to France. 



We find the vineyards producing the best 

 white wines of La Vaux, to be those of Cully, 

 Reiz, Epress, and Le Dessalay. The red wines 

 of the district maintaining the highest reputation 

 to be those of Treytorens, and St. Saphorin. 

 The wine district of the coast is more limited 

 than that of La Vaux, the best coast wines being 



