THE VINE AND CIVILISATION. ve 
France. The true enjoyer of wine finds it exhilarates the 
spirits, increases the memory, and promotes cheerfulness. 
He who would destroy good wine by taking it when its 
flavour is no longer fresh to the palate, is a drunkard; he 
knows nothing of rational enjoyment, which consists in modera- 
tion. As the odour of the rose deadens upon the sense after 
the first exhalation, so it is with wine, and all our enjoyments. 
The best test against sophisticated or adulterated wines is a 
perfect acquaintance with that which is good. They who com- 
mend the purple draught for the warmth it imparts to the 
stomach, which has been perhaps for years at a temperature 
of 120° of Fahrenheit, can only value it as it stimulates the 
_ over-excited organ. Swallowers of cognac and capsicum, proof 
whisky and similar fiery liquids, will purchase sophisticated 
wine; but by those who relish the healthful glass that cheers 
without inebriation — that enlivens conversational ideas, and 
kindles social friendship, without passing the limits of well 
regulated enjoyment ; who find in the juice of the grape those 
virtues, which a proper and temperate participation in the 
benevolent gifts of providence, and enjoy those gifts with a 
rational and manly moderation. : 
ISSOUR; BOTANICAL GARDE® 
HENRY SHAW PAPERG 
