THE VINE. 



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rubbed their bodies with oil after bathing; now-a-days 

 oil is no longer in vogue as an external application, 

 nnless it be in the form of Marseilles oil-soap. This 

 Graeeo-Eastern use of oil survives only in the solemn 

 anointing of a monarch and in extreme unction. In 

 France the anointing of the Kings at Rheims was per- 

 formed \\'itii great pomp well into the last centur)', al- 

 though tlie vial (la sainte ampoule) of Clodwig, wliich ac- 



down from 

 shattered at 

 Soap, un- 

 made use ol 



cording to legend was brouoht 

 heaven b\- a dove, was 

 the time ot the Revolution, 

 known to the ancients, who 

 oil for anointing their bodies 

 is a northern invention. 



As in Plin\''s book the Olive 

 and \''inc are mentioned side b^' 

 side, so also on the Rl\'iera are 

 the\' to be met with side b\' side 

 The 01i\e predominates, ho\\'ever, 

 in the immetliate vicinit\' ol the 

 sea, ^vhile the A'ine on the 

 contrar\- shuns the shore, f-iut 

 it is less sensitive to cold 

 and can therefore be ^^' 

 grown further north. Thus -^C^f 

 in the ^Middle Ages the 

 cultivation of the \^ine 

 ted as far north as East 

 and even as far as Tilsit; 

 bevs of L'etersen and Prcetz 



and the Ab- 



Aiicnionc coronaria. 



