1 20 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



yield capital crops of fruit in seasons at all complacent, 

 at all events in the southern counties, and if care be 

 taken to plant these, there is, on the average, a very 

 plentiful reward. Not that to attempt grape-growing on 

 a large scale out-of-doors, except for the manufacture of 

 wine, is worth while, perhaps, as a commercial under- 

 taking, the seasons being so uncertain, and the supply of 

 table-fruit from abroad being so large and so cheaply 

 obtained. But there is so much beauty and interest in 

 connection with the fruiting of a vine in one's own 

 garden as a source of enjoyment that not to secure it is 

 a pity. The best kinds for outdoor culture are, taking 

 first the purple-fruited, Esperione, Muscat Lierval, and 

 Black Cluster; and among the amber-tinted, or "white," 

 Muscat St. Laurent, Chasselas Vibert, Chasselas de Fon- 

 tainebleau, and Tokay Frontignan. The above-mentioned 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps also seems to do well. 



Once again like the apple, the vine has found its way 

 to all countries where the climate allows of the ripening 

 of the fruit. In very cold regions it refuses to grow, and 

 within twenty-five or even thirty degrees of the equator 

 it seldom flourishes, too much solar heat being no less 

 unwelcome than the reverse. The special interest of the 

 circumstance consists in the prelude this wide diffusion 

 forms to the manufacture by the various countries of their 

 own wines. Wine has long been made at the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Australia is rapidly developing this new 

 industry. One of the most promising of the wines of 

 the future is that which is made in large quantities at 



