and subsequently striking still more northward, through Rhenish Prussia, and above Dresden, ascends as high up as Königsberg, which forms as it were the apex. It then inclines southward across the Carpathian Mountians, traversing both Little and Eastern Russia to the upper shores of the Caspian, whence it stretches to the river Amoor and the Pacific, intersecting North America just above San Francisco and Colorado, and skirting Lakes Michigan, Erie, and Ontario. The southern limits of the vine, which grows at certain elevations and in particular localities within the tropics, after including Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, terminate in South America at Valdivia, in Chili, and Bahia Blanca, in the Argentine Republic.

The following table summarizes the various awards for wines at the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873:'

The produce of wine per acre varies greatly in the same

country:

In France, from 42 to 547 gallons per acre.

In Germany, from 79 to 379 gallons per acre.

Mr. Mulhall' gives the following table of wines in Europe:

Mr. Mulhall' gives the following new wine-growing coun

He says: "France, in the earlier part of the present century, produced 800,000,000 gallons yearly, but in late years the vintage has averaged 1,200,000,000, representing a value of £48,000,000 sterling, 94 per cent. being kept for home consumption, and only 6 per cent. exported. Italy could raise wine to supply half of Europe; but some of her wines cannot stand a sea voyage." Only one sixth of the wine made in Spain is exported. (See also p. 101.)