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It would seem, that, to ensure better fortune to the cultivators of the 

 grape, they should select the best native kinds ; whereof there are great- 

 varieties; and many little, if at all, known. I bury my grape-vines and 

 figs, in the autumn ; to guard against severe winters. I lost fifty fo- 

 reign grape-vines in one winter, by omission of this precaution. Gene- 

 ral Morcau told me, he found it necessary in this country. He inform- 

 ed me, that the inhabitants ol a large village near Par/.?, who supplied 

 the market with great quantities of Jigs, formed their trees so that the 

 branches were calculated to admit of their being covered with earth, 

 to guard them against frosts even in that climate. 



R. P. 



