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tinned, that, last Sunday (being, we believe, the fete of the 

 Exaltation of the Cross) Mount Valerien had been crowd- 

 ed with people from morning to night ; that many proces- 

 sions of priests, bearing crucifixes and banners, had come 

 from Paris to it ; and that probably not fewer than ten 

 thousand pilgrims, or rather idle Parisians, had accompa- 

 nied these processions to this emblematical Mount Calvary. 

 Mr Hudson's vineyards are better managed than any we 

 have hitherto seen, indicating the hand of a judicious vigne- 

 ron, and affording an example of the mode usually fol- 

 lowed by the superior cultivators, such as those at Argen- 

 teuil. The plants are in general about three feet and a 

 half high. The stems are, in most cases, laid down, or 

 bent at the base and covered with earth : although, there- 

 fore, each stool is tw r o feet apart, it thus happens that the 

 stems from the separate stools approach nearer than that to 

 each other. They are tied to small stakes (echalas), fre- 

 quently two, three, or even four shoots to each stake. The 

 trimmings resulting from the second dressing (esourselage), 

 are collected in little bundles, and were now stuck about 

 the tops of the vines and props. In this way they afford 

 some degree of shelter to the bunches of fruit below, with- 

 out excluding the sun : they are thus at the same time 

 dried or win ; for the cuttings both of the first and second 

 dressing are, very economically, preserved for winter-fod- 

 der to cattle. During winter, the vines are cut very low, 

 commonly within a foot of the ground, The garnet noir, 

 which resembles our small black cluster, — the meunier 

 or dusty miller, — and the green chasselas, are some of the 

 principal kinds here cultivated. 



We spent some time in the house, enjoying the lively 

 conversation of the venerable Scoto-Gallican gardener Ulai- 

 kic. He told us, that, in 1775, he was sent by Drs Fo- 

 thergO] and Pkcairn of London, two of the most distin- 



