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ines gra on American stocks. Direct production from American 
stocks has, fortunately for the wine consumer, been abandoned as 
hopeless. 
* According to an estimate recently published the totai area of vine- 
yards under cultivation last year in the Gironde department was 
349,817 acres; being an increase of 6,292 acres compared with the 
same period of the year 1887, in which latter year there had been a 
diminution in the acreage of wine-growing land as compared with 1886 
“Though the figures showing the acreage of vineyards during 1888 
are almost the largest ever reached and considerably larger than those 
attained about 10 years ago, it is necessary to observe that about one- 
insect continues to do much havoc in the vineyards of thi well as 
of most other parts of France. But it is nevertheless the opinion of 
erienced vitieulturists in this country that, upon the whole, the 
years ago ; it e added that, as regards in particular the Gironde 
department, the outlook certainly must be called hopeful at present. 
* For not only will doubtless the late abundant vin ive a fresh 
vating their devastated land, but the fact, above referred to, that already 
1 Ib. slaked lime and 22 gallons of water; (3) against Oidium, sulphur ; 
and (4) against Anthracnosis, a mixture of 80 lbs. of sulphate of iron 
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and 10 lbs. sulphate of copper. The total cost of using all thes 
