This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... In illustration of this remark may be cited the characteristic salutations of different nations, the various modes of dressing the hair, and the dissimilar pronunciation of the same letter. The cultivation of the vine affords another example. In our own country it is suffered to expand itself to any size and nailed in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... In illustration of this remark may be cited the characteristic salutations of different nations, the various modes of dressing the hair, and the dissimilar pronunciation of the same letter. The cultivation of the vine affords another example. In our own country it is suffered to expand itself to any size and nailed in regular lines to the wall or frame of a green-house; thus, a single tree will produce several hundred weight of grapes. On the banks of the Rhine, the growth is limited to four feet in height, and each tree is supported in an upright position. In France, it is formed into arches and ornamental alcoves. In Sardinia, it assumes the aspect of a parasitical plant, luxuriating among the branches of the largest forest-trees, and clasping with its tendrils the extreme twigs. In Asia Mfnor, its wild festoons hang their green and purple pendants from rural bowers of trellis-work. On the heights of Lebanon, it lies in a state of humiliation, covering the ground like the cucumber; and subsequently we saw it in the valley ofEshcol, in a position different from all that have been named. There, three vines planted close together and cut off at a height of five feet meet in the apex of a cone formed by their stems; where, being tied, each is supported by two others, and thus enabled to sustain the prodigious clusters for which that region has always been famous; clusters so large that, to carry one, the spies of Moses were compelled to place it on a stick borne by two men. Each mode is, doubtless, the best that could be adopted in the quarter where it prevails, considering the nature of the soil and climate, the value of the land, and the object of the cultivator. Lebanon is separated from the nearly parallel range of AntiLebanon by the valley of Bakaah, ab...
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