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the wall fruit be the same with that of the field, 

 both will not ripen at the same time. A confu- 

 sion, as well as an increase of expense in the 

 operations of the vintage, will be the necessary 

 consequence. Such fruit, moreover, being the 

 only grapes ripe at the time, will be more ex- 

 posed to the ravages of insects, and become the 

 single point against which the attack of the 

 whole tribe will be concentrated. If the vigne- 

 ron should determine, bon gre, mal gre, to cul- 

 tivate against the wall, the same fruit as in the 

 open field, the branches should be trailed longer 

 and higher, the fruit consequently being more 

 elevated, it may reasonably be hoped, will ripen 

 and be at maturity about the same time as that of 

 the open plantation*. 



* [The objection urged by some of the cultivators of the 

 Canton of Vaud, against having the different fruits in the vici- 

 nity of each other, is that during the blossom of the vine, there 

 will be a mixture of the farina, and the fruit changed thereby. 

 I found the opinion general against the plan of raising different 

 kinds of grapes in the vicinity of each other, and those who are 

 particular in the affairs of the vintage, dislike an admixture of 

 fruit in the same pressing. The reason assigned is, -that the 

 fermentation is not the same in all the varieties of the grape, 

 and that where such different fruits are thrown promiscuously 

 into the mashing tub, the fermentation of one part will be en- 

 tirely finished, whilst that of the other will be in active opera- 

 tion. It is however not uncommon in the Canton, to throw 

 into the general mass, the whole crop, but this is always to 

 economise labour, and is not done in the best wine making dis- 

 tricts.] TRANSLATOR. 



