of Champagne in France. 
91 
Livres. 
First result ........ 550 
From which deduct as above . 516 
Net produce of an acre of vineyard in middling years 31< 
We may easily perceive that the net produce cannot be 
estimated upon very just and rigorous data, as the wines 
of Ay, Hautvillers, Epernay, and Pierry, fetch from two 
hundred to four hundred livres each piece; and a mean 
price must be fixed for all the other classes of Champagne 
wine^, which sell for ninety up to two hundred livres. 
It follows from this statement, that, without great in- 
dustry, a proprietor can derive but a small profit, who is 
obliged to sell annually in the cask the produce of his 
vines : the rich proprietor only, who can afford to put his 
wines into bottles, and keep them for two or three years, 
can depend upon a certain and real profit. 
In what Manner is the Vine planted in the Mountain P 
The vines are planted differently in the mountain and 
on the banks of the river. The greater part of the vine- 
growers, who have contracted habits which they will not 
give up, notw ithstanding the inconveniences which they 
are every day aware of, plant their vines in March only : 
the shoots they use are either produced from the tall vines 
which have been beaten, and which have very few roots, or 
from other plants which spring up among the low vines 
at the moment of cutting the vines, and which have also 
very few roots, since they are procured from stalks that 
have lain on the ground since the commencement of the 
season. 
(To he continued. ) 
