A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton.

  • John Barton
Date:
1827
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Credit: A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¥ principal drink of the people, and those in which they principally consume beer, may be drawn from the south of England through French Flanders, Hesse, Bohemia, the Carpa- thian Mountains, Odessa, and the Crimea *. This line, it will be observed, is not exactly the same as that which limits the cultivation of the Vine. Something must be allowed for national custom. The people of the north-western part of France drink wTine, though not produced on the spot, but brought, at a considerable expense, from the more southern provinces, because, to a Frenchman, habit has rendered wine one of the necessaries of life. The Russians, on the other hand, accustomed to beer, do not drink much wine, even in those southern districts where the climate admits of the cultivation of the Grape. Humboldt estimates that the cultivation of the Vine succeeds only in those climates where the annual mean temperature is between 50° and 68°; or the mean temperature may even be as low as 48°, provided the summer heat rises to 68°t. In the Old World, these condi- tions are found to exist as far north as latitude 50°; in the New World, not beyond latitude * Precis de la Ge'ographie Universelle, tom. vi. p. Cl. See the map of Europe. f Prolegomena, p. 159.
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