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they bore as much as could reafonably be defired. A violent ftorm 

 of hail which fell in June, left fcarce any thing to be gathered 

 in all our other vineyards. 



The year 1754, produced, in general, but little wine. The 

 young plants of my bed, being only in their fecond year, were too 

 weak to diftinguilli themfelves by any extraordinary quantity of fruit ; 

 tho' their vigour gave great hopes for future years. However, even 

 in this, they were loaded with fo many and fo large bunches of 

 grapes, that they yielded rather more wine than the old vines which 

 .were next them. 



The year 1755, was one of the befl years for vine, that has been 

 known for a long time. The quantity was plentiful, and the qua- 

 lity exceeding good. The youngeft plants of my bed, which were 

 only in their third year, feemed no ways inferior to the old vines cul- 

 tivated in the common way. 



This bed, 40 perches long, and 10 feet wide, including the 

 alleys, contained 66 fquare perches. It yielded three hundred 

 and thirty-fix pints of wine, Paris meafure*, which was after 

 the rate of two-fifths more than I had from my old vineyard; or to 

 explain myfelf ftill better, ■ if my whole vineyard had been laid out 

 in beds, it would have yielded five barrels of wine, for every three 

 that it did yield. 



Twenty beds of the fize we are fpeaking of would make near 

 an acre and a quarter: that is to fay, they would contain 1320 

 fquare perches : and thofe twenty beds, fuppofing them all 

 to produce alike, would, after the rate of this, yield 6720 Paris 

 pints, or 23 hogfheads and 96 pints j which, in this country, is a 

 prodigious quantity, fuch as no vineyard here has ever yet pro- 

 duced. 



The vintage of 1756, v/as neither plentiful nor good. I therefore 

 <3id not make any comparifon; but remained fatisfied with obltrving 

 in general, that my bed produced at leaft as much as the old vine- 

 yard. 



* Nearly equal to the fame Number of EngUfli quaits, wine meafuic. 



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