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Painshill, had a vineyard which succeeded for 

 many years, and produced excellent champagne. 

 In many countries, as in Persia* ftf Crete, Min- 

 grelia, etc., the attempt is mad-to keep the 

 grapes on the vines fresh throughout the 

 greater part of the year, which is, perhaps, 

 possible in those countries on account of the 

 great dryness of the winter. A vineyard, 

 associated as it is with our ideas of beauty 

 and plenty, generally disappoints the traveller. 

 A hop garden in Kent is a far more picturesque 

 object. In France and Spain the vine is seldom 

 allowed to grow above three or four feet high. 

 But in Italy is found the true vine of poetry, 

 surrounding the stone cottage with its girdle, 

 flinging its pliant and luxuriant branches over 

 the rustic verandah, and twining its long gar- 

 land from tree to tree. The number of varieties 

 of the vine is extraordinary ; but the most 

 remarkable fact is, that the same variety of 

 vine often produces two different kinds of wine, 

 even in places lying close to each other. These 

 differences are, indeed, inexplicable to us ; we 

 only are sure that they must be caused by the 

 locality, but how, we know not. In the cata- 

 logue of the Luxemburg Garden, at Paris, 

 fourteen hundred varieties are enumerated ; 

 about six hundred are cultivated in the gar- 

 dens of Geneva ; sixty-four varieties are grown 

 in English gardens ; one hundred and nineteen 

 in Spain; and forty-one in the regions of the 

 Rhine. 



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