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tion of grain, reaping annually from five to seven 

 sacks,* as well as esculent vegetables for the table. 

 For several years I have abandoned this ill-judged 

 system, which may show how strongly I am 

 convinced of the pernicious effects of any other 

 cultivation among the vines. 



ARTICLE XV. 



Of the planting of vines in grounds where 

 they have never before been. 



THE cultivator who intends to establish his 

 vineyard in new ground, should carefully select 

 his cuttings from strong, good plants, the small 

 white grape being the species best calculated for 

 such a culture.! 



As the cuttings will succeed almost miracu- 

 lously in such grounds, giving much strong 

 wood, that little grape is to be preferred, be- 

 cause it pushes but feebly its wood, but gives a 

 heavy crop of fruit. 



Should your site be a prairie or plain, or grass 

 ground, great care must be taken to shell off 

 all the sod or grass from the surface of the field. 

 It must on no account be turned under, as 



* About two and a half bushels TRANS. 



f So far as concerns the Canton de Vaud. TRANS. 



