& THE GRAPE. 



The difference is often impressed still more markedly 

 upon the fruits which the plants produce. 



There is, indeed, an identity in the nature of apple- 

 trees ; but any one, however ignorant of botany, can 

 distinguish numerous varieties of this fruit, varieties 

 not only of form and size, but also of colour, taste, and 

 smell. 



The vine ranks among those plants which are very 

 dependent (at least in so far as regards the fruit it 

 produces) upon external influences : colour and size, 

 form and taste, aroma and productiveness, vary in this 

 case in so remarkable a manner as might lead one 

 almost to regard the vine as a peculiar gift of the 

 Creator's bounty. 



Should the reader wish for an example of the im- 

 mense variety of vines, we will only remind him that 

 Chaptal, when Minister of the Interior, caused 1400 

 different species of vines to be transplanted out of 

 Erance alone into the garden of the Luxembourg. 



The like variety may be observed not only in grapes 

 which have been grown in different parts of the earth, 

 but even in those produced in the same country, and 

 growing on the same spot. 



And, indeed, though less strongly marked, we may 

 perceive a like difference even in the grapes of one 

 vine. Protect one cluster of grapes from too great 

 exposure to the action of the sun, and cover it with a 

 bell of dark glass, or with oiled paper, while you leave 

 another exposed, and you will produce a much more 



