House and Garden 
abbey once grew 
their grapes. We 
have already noticed 
the vines that are 
trained around the 
porch of a cottage 
home. In the out¬ 
skirts of Freshwater, 
in the Isle of Wight, 
facing the road, is a 
house covered with 
a gigantic vine, which 
gives it a very pic¬ 
turesque appearance. 
The grapes grown on 
these vines are sel¬ 
dom eatable. In 
some summers,when 
there is an abun¬ 
dance of sunshine, 
they are not very 
sour, but usually 
they are not delec¬ 
table. A good tart can be made of them, 
and the villagers manufacture a species of 
grape-wine which vies with the decoctions 
brewed by industrious housewives. There 
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is a great variety of 
these beverages pre¬ 
pared from recipes 
which have been 
handed down from 
the days of our 
grandmothers. Rhu¬ 
barb wine, which is 
said to equal cham¬ 
pagne,when properly 
prepared; cowslip 
wine, a somewhat sad 
liquid; black cur¬ 
rant wine; elder- 
flower wine; are 
some of the contents 
of the countryman’s 
cellar. We give an¬ 
other view of a vine- 
clad house. 
Examples of the 
formal garden may 
be seen as we walk 
along the English roads. Box-trees, cut into 
fantastic shapes, and clipped yews are occa¬ 
sionally met with. The trees are made to 
assume the appearance of peacocks with long, 
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