A GARDEN IN VENICE 



whose consequent smaller produce made the 

 prices better for the cultivators of those that, 

 taken better care of, gave also the better yield. 

 So that the profits gained by the few were 

 increased, as is often the case, by their neighbours' 

 loss. 



Now the culture of the vine is better under- 

 stood. A liberal and timely use of sulphate of 

 copper and of sulphur combats the diseases. 

 The commercial want of combination of Italy 

 with France and Germany prevents the sending, 

 as was once done, of large quantities of grapes to 

 make Bordeaux or Rhenish wines, and the result 

 is that too large quantities are thrown on the 

 home market, with a corresponding fall in 

 prices. 



We have several kinds of eating grapes, " Uva 

 di Tavola," amongst others two or three sorts of 

 Muscats, black and white, and a black and a 

 white Lugliatico, an early grape, as the name 

 denotes, something like the old English Sweet- 

 water, a Cenerentola, a Meran, and Uva d'Ora. 

 These used to sell at what I called the fair price 

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