Identifier: appendixtojourna18855cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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produced 100 barrels of wine; in1875, 120 barrels; in 1876, 60 barrels, notwithstanding the severe frostthat Spring; and in 1877, 110 barrels. If the vines had been plantedin the ordinary way instead of en chaintres, the expense of cultivatingand keeping up the vineyard would now be ten times as great as thatthat has been involved in the culture of these chaintres since theywere first planted. The delegation of the central committee of phylloxera for theDepartment of 8a6ne-et-Loire, in September, 1881, visited the vine-yards en chaintre in the locality where the method was invented. The reporter, Mr. Ch. Millot, speaks thus: But the most wonderful vineyards of all are those belonging to Mr. Monpouet, situated onthe plateau of the Grcmge. Mr. Monpouet is a viticulturist of great merit; he was awarded amedal at the Universal Exposition and at the district meeting of Tours; and surely,on visit-ing his vineyards we see that this honor was well merited. PRUNING AND CONDUCTING THE VINE. 43
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44 THE CHAINTRE SYSTEM OF There arc several distinct plots, making in all not quite five and a half acres, of vines e»ichaintrcf (vrilh two oblique arms), which yielded 175 hectolitres (about 3,850 gallons) to thehectare (about two and a half acres) in 1875, and which will yield 190 (about 4,180 gallons)this year. Such is the vineyard we went through, pausing at every step, and exhausting ourvocabularv of admiration in oresence of those robust vines, loaded with magnificent bunches ofgrapes. We counted forty-eight of these enormous bunches on a single branch, not quite threefeet long, and there were sixteen of these branches on one vine. Behold the result of Father Denis idea put in practice by an intelligent vine-grower. Witha piece of ground of ordinary fertility, and sold for twelve hundred francs per hectare whendetached from the manorial estate of Chenonceaux, of which it formed a part, Mr. Monpouetmade a splendid vineyard, now valued at ten thousand francs per hectare. It is wi

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