ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE same motives that induced the editor of 

 the " Bulletin of Agriculture" to insert in his 

 periodical journal the treatise of Mr. Brun 

 Chapuis, of Vevay, on the cultivation of the 

 vine, have induced the " Committee on agricul- 

 culture of the Society of Arts/' to republish the 

 same, to be distributed among the members of 

 the class, and those of the three societies for the 

 cultivation of the vine in our Canton, (Geneva) 

 with the view to circulate it, through their agency, 

 among our vine dressers generally. 



It is not the expectation of the society, that 

 each different process shall be adopted without 

 due reflection. They are aware that it contains 

 some points on which intelligent cultivators may 

 differ in opinion. Such, for example, is the im- 

 portant feature of pruning, the most experienced 

 vignerons of the coast, and of our Canton, prefer- 

 ring the " willow head*," a system which Mr. 

 Brun utterly condemns. If, like him, every 

 cultivator should devote a part of his time, how- 

 ever small, to useful experiment, the question in 

 a few years would be decided by the results de- 

 veloped. 



This little work contains, however, within a 



* The willow head, that is, the method pursued generally 

 by the vinegrowers of Italy, allowing the branches to shoot to 

 the extent of twenty feet, or more, and trailing them from tree 

 to tree. TRANSLATOR, 



