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OLIVES, VINES, AND CORN 



The north wind is considered the most favorable, with dry weather, 

 during the flowering of the olive tree. The fruit is all picked with 

 the hand, and not suffered to fall as in Attica. 



Corn. 



Hordeum sativum. Two sorts of barley are cultivated at Zante, 

 yvfipoxfuQi, and dXoyoxpiQ] ; the first is so called from being naked or 

 destitute of beards ; this is principally used for bread, and that of 

 Galaxithi, a town of Phocis, is the most esteemed. The second sort 

 is so called from being used as the food of horses. 



Triticum sativum. The different sorts cultivated in Zante are, 



1. ypivsug. This is principally sown in the mountains, or at the foot 

 of the mountains, as in the plains it is subject to the rust, and to be 

 damaged by the south winds. To prevent its being injured by the 

 heavy dews, two persons taking hold of each end of a long rope * draw 

 it over the field ; by these means the water is shaken out of the husks, 

 and the grain is preserved. 



2. Another sort is the ufrit^oy^vtaq^ which is also cultivated in simi- 

 lar situations. 



3. A third sort is pouVtnas-, which grows principally in the plains, 

 and is less subject to injury from the dews, and has the grain very 

 hard. 



4. A fourth sort, ftavpoyuvt has a hard heavy grain which is much 

 esteemed, and is sown in the plain. 



5. A fifth sort yp<pv<V^« is sown both in the plains and mountains ; 

 has the spike compressed and the seeds close. 



* " Some advise, in the morning, after the mildew is fallen, and before the rising of the 

 sun, that two men go at some convenient distance in the furrows, holding a cord stretched 

 between them, carrying it so that it may shake off the dew from the top of the corn, before 

 the heat of the sun hath thickened it." — Practical Treatise of Husbandry, containing ex- 

 periments collected by Du Hamcl and others, p. 81. Mr. Hawkins says, that S«wA/t«j is 

 the name applied to the mildew in corn. 



