A GARDEN IN VENICE 



Of fruit less known there are the Kaki and 

 Nespolo that come from Japan. The last is very 

 good in early spring ; they ripen in Venice as 

 late as May. And the Kaki is a golden bag of 

 sugar in November and December ; too sweet for 

 me, but those that like them like them greatly. 

 Then there are melons of many sorts and great 

 excellence. They seem, however, to require 

 early renewal from their parent stock. The fruit 

 grown from the seeds that come to us from 

 England lose in a year or two their respective 

 characters. Even Bacirro, the great yellow melon 

 of the Greek archipelago, has a tendency to 

 round his long form and fatten. The Egyptian 

 water-melon, Anguria, is much grown, but those 

 who have crushed its red flesh like frozen snow 

 in the desert heat, would scarcely recognise the 

 Venetian temperate produce. 



Our fruit then is abundant and excellent, as it 

 should be in a temperature where it should form, 

 and does form, a large part of one's daily diet. 

 And then the price brings it happily within 

 the reach of the poorest. Our surplus fruit is 

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