Horticultural register, and gardener's magazine . top of the nextstake, and secured in its rear; its luxuriance being thus restrained. The same system of restriction is practised at the Clos de is regarded as the best vineyard in France, and was sold duringthe revolution, and in 1794, for one million one hundred thousandfrancs. This vineyard is walled round. The vines being kept low,and the ground never manured. The soil is calcareous, on a founda-tion of limestone or calcareous rocks. In cold countries, where grapes require the whole heat of the sun,the vines, according to the b
Horticultural register, and gardener's magazine . top of the nextstake, and secured in its rear; its luxuriance being thus restrained. The same system of restriction is practised at the Clos de is regarded as the best vineyard in France, and was sold duringthe revolution, and in 1794, for one million one hundred thousandfrancs. This vineyard is walled round. The vines being kept low,and the ground never manured. The soil is calcareous, on a founda-tion of limestone or calcareous rocks. In cold countries, where grapes require the whole heat of the sun,the vines, according to the best authority, should be elevated on poles,placed perpendicularly in earth. And in this mode the vines may bevery closely planted. The earth being left uncovered, and receivingall the heat of the suns rays, and these being reverberated, the wholeplant is exposed to its action. But in warmer climates the earth re-quires to be sheltered from the excessive heat of the sun, and the vinesmay be supported on arbors, or suffered to creep on the The mode of training the vine at Thomery, as represented in thecut above, appears to have originated from the well-known and sin-gular fact, that an extended vine produces not fruit except at itsextremities. That a vine carried beyond the bounds of a limited ex-tent, ever becomes barren at its base. The system of training and 14 ON THE GRAPE VINE. pruning, which is there practised, and with such signal success, maytherefore be considered, as the perfection of every mode which hasever been devised.* Thomery is a village near Fontainbleau, and but a few leaguesfrom Paris. Its grapes, with which the markets of the capital are sup-plied, are proverbial for their superior excellence. It will appear evi-dent, that this justly merited celebrity, is not due either to the superiorquality of the soil, or to its favorable exposure ; but to the managementof their grapes alone. For Thomery has not a happy exposition ;the quality of the soil is infe
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