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of France that it is more profitable for the cultivators of 

 Thomery to retard theirs till the glut of the others is over. 



The different properties form long slips, separated by walls. 

 Interiorly each is subdivided by cross walls, about 30 feet apart. 

 Formerly the walls were composed of clay, plastered over ; but 

 they now build them of stone. They are about 8 feet high, 

 furnished with a coping of flat tiles, projecting about 8 inches, 

 and worked up to a ridge-top, in order to throw off the wet. 

 The projecting coping is considered of great importance by the 

 cultivators, on account of its keeping the fruit dry, and preserv- 

 ing the bloom. Wooden trellises are affixed to the wall, and to 

 these the vines are trained in the following manner: — 



