A GARDEN IN VENICE 



examined well the old vineyard that had become 

 from neglect a meadow, and a couple of years of 

 kindly treatment with stall manure and Scorie 

 Thomas phosphates raised its yield from thirty 

 tons of hay to fifty-five, with grass and with 

 grapes in proportion. 



We grow here, or the climate grows for us,, 

 three crops of hay and an aftermath of ' grass. 

 There is a good deal of trouble in it all, but then 

 one must do something as long as one can do 

 anything, and the return for one's money would 

 surely please an English landlord. To visit one's 

 farm is the object for a run in one's launch, with 

 three or four water routes to choose from. It is 

 one of the peculiarities of Venice that to go any- 

 where by water there are at least three ways of 

 going. And another, that in the going any 

 slight distance you will change the tide, though 

 the tide does not change, and have it with you 

 or against you two or three times. 



The lagoons discharge into the Adriatic 

 through several mouths that cut the Lido, that 

 long sea bank which for five-and-twenty miles 

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