8r THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 4, 1874, : 
azue in their pierra eee As the whole 
district is essentiall cated to the culture of the 
ine; bread and Sees, are dear and scarce. 
The soil is turned, and the Grapes trodden, entirely by 
the Gallegos, or natives of Gallic The frui is cut 
m and children fro jace 
country, the only work done by the resident farmer 
being the pruning of the The vin season 
ptember 15 to the end of October 
e Grapes are cut _~ are carried in open 
‘adega” shed, where a iy are 
varies from Se 
ter the 
ured step, 
treading the fruit Sa the sound p the “Tagpite, the 
fife, and the dru This operation is continued for 
weary nae Shea wes the Grapes am fully 
prae: and fermentation commences. If the must 
e gre or “se t superabundant in sa S ne, in 
a six patimi it will become a perfect Nie 
cate the 
saccharine abound, ane that time may be necessary 
to oe oduce the desired result. The regulating the 
draw ing off the wine into large ‘*‘tonels” or vats, in 
which it undergoes its aar tape is by no 
means an easy opera’ If rich wine is require 
brandy is added in vay “lagar,” a the. fermenta- 
tion is thus checked. If a pure wine 
fermentation is allowed to Aa its natural course, 
and a pg hase ne Peay will suffice to keep 
ing state. Imme- 
grower pasted o such a manner 
Sisible till omy the Tabel is detached. At po fair of 
’ezode Regoa, in February, the samples are 
py Js "$ et ese a Teire for export receive a ‘‘ bil- 
eR of admission to the expor E Warehouse 
a Villa N Mots Here alone the pacino Bat s can 
he stored. e largest wine farm on the rivi 
is the 
Quinta do Vesurio, eremeine to the Ba famiy. 
lt has produced in healthy pipes or 
92,000 gallons o egal 
** demarcation,” 
besi 
t pr 
a year or so will pes wiati is eet 
ven the best uo o wines are, in 
“a heir large pu 
$ — this ss 
What < ly salleq b; th de a 
are pro e generic alee 
phe isbon wines =P are ; A kras how- 
was 
erberry is grown and used extensively for the 
sake of its well-known colo 
e the 
P |e 
e total growths 
Douro. The Black 
almost to 
Some of the 
honey, and more especi ecially that the 
mee of Sarei will y at Brown disadvantage- 
oer. nae the produce of Mount Hymettus itself, 
: HORTICULTURAL NOVELTIES 
TSS Gail eM eee 
= s. 
` CConetuded from 2 e, vol. a 1874.) 
It is unnecessary to say 
together trace of the mole 
th or = 
that these are not in reality the work of m 7 
other animal, they are the work of the s 
alternate ho ane thaw, and aoa ea spot sien The 
snow ha a night or two be 
Out of al half-frozen, MOTAS whole muddy 
e afterwards, 
i 
peeps my ne little Umbellifer. 
t least 
a tithe bit of La die. ing 
yellow or white, it is . the most delicate pa iie 
with large purplish o r blui sh black stamens. 
whole oa or bets not bigger n a three- 
enny or sixpenny as tubers at the root 
alpines will doat upon it, and admirer of beauty 
and harmony of colour must be AE aa ith it 
Besides the above I saw other spring pla ants with 
bulbous or tuberous pom which w a no ene 
of being introduced into this cou un 
Spey; larger pan the T prnl in bai apparently 
going to be p 5a brown: t did see 
flower, and a of ow oa wing iii jor 
of marshy plain, i Parley’s Park, em 65 ee in 
h nee ing very well worth 
other showy 
I must mention fo instance, the 
different paises "of Castillei 
Blt is a geus. of Scrophulariaces, soning near 
and Pedi 
Rhinanth , with an insigni- 
es wer, but with the tecnination of the floral 
eaves more or less brightly 
merica by the name of P. 
are familiar with it, 
studied it in herbari 
kn 
arlety, rear yman 
less a new species, spreads itself into every garden i in 
the civilised world ; but, hitherto, there has n one 
exception to „this rule 0 ‘universal Pers PRS 
plants. 
be 
rasitic 
te Painted cae is a plant which i is said to 
to have 
is 
re litight ¢ ough; are 
on the whole Scarcely suficiently attractive to make it 
Keer; rms = that east two of 
four 
t grows from 1 to 2 feet high. Tt 
e that there are great individual differences in 
he mirai of the colour in the same species, it 
sp mes as rich as the Gloire de Rosoméne 
i in others maroon or yellow colour, 
put when good the colow of te Sphng species & 
ember one pleasant Sunday morning in s 
rambling over the hills behind Salt t Lake City ae 
time that this crimson species was coming into bloom, 
and I met many groups of lads and their 
stroll like Ke many of whom bore in their ha 
bouquets composed en ntirely ofthis Painted Cup, 
which at a ite distance looked like e large bunches — 
laciniated C themums, but of such a vivi vid carm 
as no y Chiysan emum This s 
said to be uncommon on these hills, but I saw it 
nowhere in quantity. 
Sn in the distance, until I got close "a fi 
ssi its roots iti 
engraft themselves upon, those of that plan > ba 
rie "y m I was vite to satisfy myself heey it 
. Ito pagood m 
pa t that I dug up a 
like half a foot of clear gat round it on e 
me up clean an 
ure there was no union, and m than t 
one who has ever dug up plants that are said t 
parasitic on roots knows that it is 
make sure of the fact Ta n e that as 
seems clear, first, that, y rate, it is not 
Spam cal, so a Ži cai’ gow ithout S 
fix on ; and, second, that even if they were 
pit r perfec vey esy t o sow the seed = ue Sage and 
of the Painted Cup together, and lea 
pat aas z Bee. ust their mutual relation u Ree wo 
satisfac er 
t is pert that this is a much simpier eid to 
Another genus whose acquaintance it is 
our while to cultivate is the Cola hine Ai 
ne forms of th raceful 
and glowing that I thought I 
yilegia flave: 
ir colour is no 
blue and white, pure whe or yellowis. 
flowered in great quantity 10,000. feet above the 
me more of those of Euc 
else. The mo = in handsome bun 
— omi 
3 feet high, a 1 
DRI 
(2 ‘ches a at a with a pie knob at whe 
I that Messrs. Backhouse, of York, mel 
species in their catalogue under 
little work on Coenen entiled Hoopes on 
raised 1000 plants of this sp from 
urseries at West Chester, in Peaasi oidik 
arrangements did not allow pr: my visiting 
ae ane wit E 
ot permit me to go over all the 
fal” pets (novelties to me) that crowd apal 
Lovely e Asters no bigger than 
And here a 
that they do not nany consiă 7 
yellow combine well ether, but this little 1 
require microscopi 
ic 
beauties arrest the a 
