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only know now, in this country, the 

 sparkling wines made on the low calcareous 

 hills in the neighbourhood of Saumur. 



GERMANY. 



Antiquarian finds of Roman wine cups 

 and wine-making implements in Germany, 

 as well as the writings of ancient Roman 

 historians, can leave no doubt whatsoever 

 as to the antiquity of viticulture in Ger- 

 many. It is not so generally known, how- 

 ever, that the trade in Rhine and Moselle 

 Wines was flourishing in England as far 

 back as the reigns of Edgar, Ethelred II., 

 and Edward the Confessor. 



Viticulture, in Germany, and the imports 

 of German wines into this country have 

 never attained and never can attain a very 

 considerable development. Vines will only 

 grow within a comparatively small area of 

 the German Empire, but they still flourish 



