168 Memoir on the Vineyards and Wines 
What is the annual Expense of Cultivating an Acre of 
Vineyard , including the Expense of Vintage and of 
Pruning? 
Livres. 
To the vine dresser 50 
Props ...... 18 
Mending them, and carriage, &e. 40 
Prunings and contributions . . £4 
Four puncheons .... 40 
Expense of vintage ... 28 
200 
General Observations. 
W e have only mentioned the culture of vines in gene- 
ral, without detailing those of the high and low grounds 
separately. There are many vineyards, however, and 
particularly in Saint Thierry, where the greater part of 
the vines is always raised to the height of about five feet, 
and supported by props of oak, six feet high, and an 
inch in diameter. This kind of vine can only answer in 
strong and vigorous ground. 
The difference between the culture of the high and 
low vineyards, consists in the shaping, tyeing, and pram 
ins- 
ist, Shaping consists in choosing from the sucker the 
best stalk, in preference to others which are cut off, and 
all the small collateral shoots are lopped off. 
2dly, The tyeing is effected when the sap is most 
abundant, and the bud already developed : the above sin- 
gle stalk is bent like a hoop, and tied to the prop in two 
or three places. 
3dly, Pruning consists in reinserting into the earth, 
and into small and long holes, every ten or fifteen years, 
the old sucker, upon which three or four stalks are left, 
