THE GKAPE. 



But I will not refer this circumstance to chemistry 

 alone, for taste may have undergone a change, and the 

 very same kind of wine which was formerly esteemed, 

 may now no longer appear palatable. Sufficient care 

 may not have been taken always to plant good sorts 

 of vines in those places which were once famous, or 

 another method may be used in the preparation of 

 wine. But who can rightly understand that which 

 has passed ? 



Bouchardat has examined several kinds of Bur- 

 gundy, with respect to their capacity for producing wine, 

 and has ascertained that the following kinds of grapes 

 yield such and such quantities per hectare :* 



Liebig and Kopp, Jahresber, 1847, 1848, 1109. 



