THE VINEYARDS OF 

 THE WORLD. 



LONG before the earth had become 

 habitable, before any sign of ani- 

 mal life had appeared either on land or in 

 the seas, the wild Vine grew from pole 

 to pole, in the warm equable temperature 

 which then enveloped the whole globe. 

 At Brjamslak, in Iceland ; at Bovey Tracey, 

 in Devonshire ; at Sezanne (Marne), in 

 France ; in Silesia ; in the valley of the 

 Rhine; in Switzerland and in many other 

 parts of Europe as well as in America, 

 fossils have been found, which modern 

 palaeontology enables us to recognise as 



