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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_1 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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THE ^'IXE AXD ITS FRUIT. 91 tiiem, and even before they have obtained their full size. In other cases the seeds do not ripen till after the fruit or seed-vessel has attained its matm-ity. Hence, whilst some seeds require to he sown at once, others germinate better if allowed to remain out of the ground some time, so as to allow of the slow changes in the seed pre'viously alluded to. "WTiere seeds quickly lose their vitality, as by dr^-ing, the pro. cess of stratification, or packing in earth kept just moist, is adopted, and this method is also one of the best to secure safe transit of seeds from the tropics. on the shores of the Caspian, in Armenia and Cara- mania, and is indigenous to a large portion of Asia, whence it was introduced into Egypt, Greece, Spain, Italy, and France. Its introduction into Britain is shrouded in doubt. Some old writers think it was brought over by the Romans a few years after the Christian era, while others assert that it was not grown in this country before the year 280, when Probus, a great patron of agTiculture in all the Roman pro^-inces, was EmjDcror. Some have at- tempted to make the Phoenicians immortal by sapng
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Fig. 1.—Leak-to Vikert. A A, Border; b b, drainage ; cc, ventilators ; d, passage ; oo, pipes. THE YINE AND ITS FRUIT. By William Colemau. INTROBJJCTORY. THE Tine. Vifis vunfera, is one of the oldest, as it is certainly one of the most graceful fruit-bear- ing trees we have in cultivation. Readers of the Old and Xew Testaments are well acquainted with the fact that its culture and uses were understood before the time of the Deluge, and that Xoah, after leaving the Ark, planted for himself a vineyard and made wine—pure and unsophisticated, no doubt, which is more than consumers of the present day can say. In the Book of Exodus we learn that the spies sent by Moses into Canaan retm-ned with an enormous bunch, borne between them on a staff. David often speaks of the vine, and finally, the Saviour Himself makes every Christian believer acquainted with it by His beautiful similes, and the way in which He has commanded us to make use of the wine in remem- brance of Him. According to Sickler it grows wild they brought the vine in the time of Solomon, when they visited the southern shores of this island for tin. Be this as it may, the Venerable Bede, a reliable authority, assures us that many vineyards existed in this country in his time (731), and when the Isle of Ely was Icnown as the Isle of Vines, from which the bishop of that diocese received an an- nual supx^ly of wine by way of tithe. William of Malmesbury, in the twelfth century, speaks highly of the county of Gloucester as a wine-growing dis- trict, where, as in the adjoining county of Hereford, traces of the flats or slopes on which the ^-ines were grown not only exist, but still bear the name of The Vineyard." We learn that excellent Bur- gundy was grown by the Duke of Xorfolk at Ai-undel, in Sussex, while Pains Hill, in Siu-rey, was noted for the quality of its champagne. AValham Green, Rotherhithe, Bury St. Edmunds, and Belvoir Castle, on the borders of Lincolnshire, are also men- tioned as having been famous for the excellence of thfir wine, which was little, if at all, inferior to that

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