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conditions which we have just indicated, and it has been 

 chosen for a model by all the authors who have written 

 upon the cultivation of the vine en espalier. This trel- 

 lis, 1,500 yards in length, was put up nearly a century ago, 

 and was restored about the year 1809 under the direction of 

 Monsieur Lelieur. But long before the last named period, the 

 inhabitants of Thomery, a village five miles distant from Fon- 

 tainebleau, were adopting entirely this method of culture. They 

 found in it so much advantage that they finished by covering 

 with walls intended for the vine the greatest. part of the terri- 

 tory of the Commune. 



This culture at the present time extends over more than 

 3,200 acres, and produces on an average a million kilogrammes 

 of grapes. It is the delicious produce of these trellises which 

 are sold at Paris under the name of Ghasselas de Fontainebleau, 

 Fig. 68, Encouraged by their success, these intelligent husband- 



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Pig. 68. 



