Chap. XII. OF THE V I N E. • • 40,1 



** of by the country people hereabouts, feveral of whom are now 

 *' following my example. What helped to give them this good opi- 

 " nion of it, fo fuddenly, was, the example of a vine, which 

 *' chances to grow near this pkce, in the middle of a field, at 

 " the foot of a pear tree, and which never is either pruned or cul- 

 " tivated. Laft year, when all the vines of this country were fo 

 " damaged by the froll, as not to produce any fruit at all; this vine 

 " efcaped unhurt, and bore as many grapes as yielded a barrel of 

 *' wine. If the future produce of my vineyard, v/hich contains 

 *' 800 vines, were to be eftimated on this footing, it would amount 

 " to 800 barrels of wine every year. But as no one can be fo ab- 

 " furd, as to make any fuch calculation, fo, on the other hard, I 

 " believe none will deny but that my vines, producing only the two 

 *' hundreth part of that proportion, will yield me four barrels of 

 " wine, which will not have coll me any thing. And even fup- 

 *' pofmg them not to yield me any thing, Itill I fhall lofe nothing, 

 ** becaufe they will have cofl me nothing. The 400 poplars, which do 

 *' not ftand me in above a penny a piece, (being planted only by flips, 

 " without making or digging either holes or trenches for them,) can- 

 " not fail, in a foil that is quite fit for them, to be worth, tvventy- 

 " five years hence, 10 livres apiece, or 4000 livres the whole ; 

 " which will be an excellent payment for the ground they will have 

 " taken up. I do not, however, mean to extend this method to 

 " all my vineyards. In mofl of them, the foil, though fit for the 

 " vine, is too dry and flony for the poplar. In Italy, vines are fre- 

 *' quently planted at the foot of mulberry and other trees. The 

 " only thing neceffary in that cafe, is, to make the alleys of a width 

 " proportioned to the fhade of the trees. 



" I have begun to cultivate vines with the horfe-hoe, and Ihall not 

 " fail to inform the public of my fuccefs in that method." 



S E C T. IX. 



Experiments on the vine, cultivated according to the principles of the 

 Ne^vHufbandry, with remarks thereupon, by M. de Chateau -vieux. 



,; VyHEN I began to refleft attentively on the principles of the 

 . ' ' new hulbandry, I foon perceived that it might prove a means 

 „r_„.f^A. .u- _..i...„- -'■■ our vineyards, as weh as that 01 our 



^ ^ ^ I was 



ofperfcdling the culture of our vineyards, as weli as that 01 our 

 other lands. 



