THE ART OP WINE MAKING. 199 



An injurious practice prevails among some of 

 the careless vintners of the Canton, of keeping 

 their winter vegetables in the wine vault. Noth- 

 ing can be more injudicious than such ill placed 

 prudence; as of all the extraneous causes affect- 

 ing the flavour and purity of wines, nothing, 

 perhaps, exercises on them a more unfavour- 

 able influence than the proximity of vegetable 

 exhalation. It is recommended also to place 

 the wine vault entirely out of the influence of 

 the dairy. Cheese making, in particular, is 

 unfavourable to wines. The neighbourhood of 

 the barn yard is avoided ; in fine whatever has a 

 tendency to animal or vegetable exhalation, af- 

 fects by its odour the purity of the wine making, 

 and is considered in the Cantons as a prolific 

 source of mischief to the staple of the country. 

 In considering, therefore, the mystery of the 

 wine making as equally important with the 

 skill of the cultivation, it will not, I presume, be 

 clothing the subject with a consequence beyond 

 its merits; and I proceed, therefore, with the 

 translation of Mr. Bulos, which is annexed, and 

 which is entitled, 



