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the grape. Indeed, we do not find results to harmonize 

 with the theory which might be deduced from a consid- 

 eration of the foregoing table. By a comparison of the 

 following tables, taken from " The United-States Agricul- 

 tural Report" for 1862, p. 594, it will be seen that the 

 most favored grape-districts have the least amount of 

 rain-fill, especially during the growing season of sum- 

 mer: 



INCHES OF RAIN. 



CALIFORNIA. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Total. 



Sacramento 3.3 0.1 3.0 6.9 13.5 



San Francisco 4.6 0.7 3.7 8.8 17.8 



Los Angeles 2.5 0.1 1.6 5.5 9.7 



NEW MEXICO. 



El Paso 0.6 6.6 4.9 0.3 12.4 



Alberquerque 0.6 5.6 1.2 1.0 8.4 



AMER. ATLANTIC CLIMATES. 



Cincinnati 11.9 14.2 10.0 11.3 47.5 



Cleveland 9.1 11.6 9.8 6.9 27.4 



Ann Arbor 7.3 11.2 7.0 3.1 28.6 



Pittsburg 9.5 12.3 7.6 7.4 36.8 



St. Louis 12.7 14.6 8.7 7.0 42.5 



Nashville 14.1 14.0 12.3 jL2.4 52.8 



EUROPEAN CLIMATES. 



Turin, Piedmont 8.2 9.0 11.5 7.8 36.5 



Valley of the Rhone 10.2 9.5 10.4 4.3 34.4 



Vevay, Switzerland 7.9 10.8 11.1 3.9 33.8 



