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Few grapes, very good wine ; mild winter, white frosts in the 



spring. 

 Little wine, bad; very cold winter, wet year, w^hite frosts ia 



the spring and autumn. 

 Grapes plenty, w'ine bad; late and rainy year. 

 Not much wine but excellent; a year of abundance. 

 Grapes failed; severe hail storms in July, August and Septem^ 



ber very rainy. 

 Plenty of grapes but the wine bad; micck snow in simvmer ; 



torrents of rain, cold and humid autumn, vintage late. 

 Wine extraordinary in quantity and quality; the spring was 



early and warm; the vines flowered before Pentecost, the 



latter end of March. 

 Wine middling; wnnter and spring rigorous. 

 No Mine; spring cold and summer wet. 



Little wine and middling; frosts in spring and hail in summer. 

 Wine good and abundant; spring cold. 

 Wine plenty but bad, great crops of grain; spring late and 



wet. 

 Wine plenty and of superior quality; early vintage. General 



abundance. 

 Few grapes; sterile year; very cold winter, trees were frozen. 



Rainy summer, cold autumn. 

 Little wine but good, fruits excellent; heavy frosts in May and 



June. 

 Grapes failed; winter cold, summer wet. 

 The like. 



Extraordinary vintage and very early. 



Abundance of grapes, wine bad; summer wet, autumn cold. 

 Few grapes, wine good; much hail. 



Plenty of grapes, wine sour; winter mild, much hail in May. 

 Little wine and bad; long winter, heavy snows; crops gener- 

 ally bad ; late season and cold and rainy. 

 Little wine, but of the first quality ; a favorable year. 

 Much the same, but with great heat; vintage about the middle 



of September. 

 Grapes in great quantity, wine sour; frost began in September. 

 Grapes enough, wine but middling ; a fertile year. 



