(seq. 332)

East Florida

Difference are generally without Remedy; to illustrate this with Examples
as the surest Teachers, observe that the Spaniards have taken from the
best Grape Vine at Madeira, situated in the V Climate, and transplanted
them near in the same Climate upon the Coast of California about six thou=
=sand miles to the West of their Original and Native Place; but the Wine produced
from the California Cultivation is much inferior to the best Wine exported
from Madeira. The Query is now, if the same Climate does not prove suc=
=cessfull for transplanting its own Native, carried a Distance of severl
thousand miles, which Climate is to be preferably chose, that more
Northerly, or another more Southwardly? If it were unexceptionable to
draw Arguments de minori ad majus, we might be contented to enter
European Gardens, when the Sowing is performed in common Soil, &
the Transplantation in a better Soil, viz in such, which by Manure is
made susceptible of more Warmth; this will decide at once; that a Plant used
to a certain degree of Heat, caused by the Inflection of the solar Rays, or any
other artificial Warmth, would not propser in a lesser Degree, but require
a Climate or Construction, which affords more Heat, as for Instance, a Climate
nearer the AEquator, where the Plant receives more Warmth; this can be
affirmed from another Experiment made by the Hollanders, who took from
the best Vines in zburgundy, situated in the VIII Climate on the North
Side of the Aequator, and transplanted them at Cape good Hope, which
lies in the V Climate on the South side of the AEquator. The Wine obtained
from the Good Hope Production is hgihgly delicious, and much superior to
the Wine made in Burgundy. This Experiment, in Company with the
first of California, sufficiently proves the Error of the above Opinion. I
would however give this Caution, not to exceed the VIII Climate Northwardly
in the Choice of Plants and Seeds, to be transplanted in the IV Climate, viz
East Florida, beacuase the Proportion between the Climates may perhaps
be as well too great, as too little; and these Plants, which are used to Rays of
very oblique Inflection, not so much multiplied by reflecting Rays of the Sun,
may not all at once be able to bear the Rays generated by near perpendicular
Inflection, and multiplied by Reflections in infinitum. For East Florida,
(as I have abovementioned) lays under the IV Climate, where, in Summerm
the Inflection of the Sun's Rays, especially at Cape Florida, are near
perpendicular; and this Province is one climate nearer the AEquator,
than Good Hope; altho' I make no doubt that Rhenish and Mosel Vines
laying under the IX Climate would succeed at Cape Florida; yet I would
advice a small Trial of them first; so much is certain that the Wine
Grapes