Three Seasons in European Vineyards: Treating of Vineculture; Vine Disease and Its Cure; Wine-making and Wines, Red and White; Wine-drinking, as Affecting Health and MoralsHarper & brothers, 1869 - 332 páginas |
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... France . - Formation and Soil . - Temperature . - Rains . - Winds . - The Oïdium . - Ruin im- pending . The Sulphur - cure . - H . Marès's Manual ...... CHAPTER XVII . . : 203 Montpellier and Marès . - Cette . - Muscat of Frontignan ...
... France . - Formation and Soil . - Temperature . - Rains . - Winds . - The Oïdium . - Ruin im- pending . The Sulphur - cure . - H . Marès's Manual ...... CHAPTER XVII . . : 203 Montpellier and Marès . - Cette . - Muscat of Frontignan ...
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... France . When I began my explorations I had barely enough knowledge of wine - growing to know what it was I needed to learn , which was better , perhaps , than to know so much as to feel above the need of learning any more . It was only ...
... France . When I began my explorations I had barely enough knowledge of wine - growing to know what it was I needed to learn , which was better , perhaps , than to know so much as to feel above the need of learning any more . It was only ...
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... France , taking , on an average , half the large crop of L'He- rault , which they buy at from ten to twenty - five cents a gallon , and sell again at so great a profit , at least when Americans are the buyers , that lately large ...
... France , taking , on an average , half the large crop of L'He- rault , which they buy at from ten to twenty - five cents a gallon , and sell again at so great a profit , at least when Americans are the buyers , that lately large ...
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... France satisfied me that it was indeed possible for the heavy draft horses of Normandy to draw on one of the enormous drays that are made for them be- tween three and four tons . If we could replace our six millions of nags , of one ...
... France satisfied me that it was indeed possible for the heavy draft horses of Normandy to draw on one of the enormous drays that are made for them be- tween three and four tons . If we could replace our six millions of nags , of one ...
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... France . From all which I inferred : First , that there was much to learn . Secondly , that I should never learn it . But a few clear lights will illuminate a good many facts , so that with patience and labor the rubbish can be known ...
... France . From all which I inferred : First , that there was much to learn . Secondly , that I should never learn it . But a few clear lights will illuminate a good many facts , so that with patience and labor the rubbish can be known ...
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