. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. Fruits 275 The (,i;.\PK ([7//s ;â ;â ;;('- fffii) is the most c->ticmc(l of all dessert fruits. In tlii> country u Rreat niimy wirie- ties of K'api! are iiiltivated, practically all under ^lass, and English hot-house grapes are considiM-ed the iine>t grapes in the world. ICIse- wliere in this work the vine IS treated at length, and it is sut
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. Fruits 275 The (,i;.\PK ([7//s ;â ;â ;;('- fffii) is the most c->ticmc(l of all dessert fruits. In tlii> country u Rreat niimy wirie- ties of K'api! are iiiltivated, practically all under ^lass, and English hot-house grapes are considiM-ed the iine>t grapes in the world. ICIse- wliere in this work the vine IS treated at length, and it is sut'ticient in this |)lace to note its value as a fruit. Considerable ipiantitit's of grapes are ini|iorted into this country. In li-X)5 wi- importitl 7(J(),()5() cut. of grapes, \-ahied at t7til,(\i2. Of these, 664,;m rut. Wert from foreign countries, ehielly Si)ain,which >ent cut. From I>riti.:li j)osse^.s;on^ came 35,{S(i7 cw;.. Channel Isles 33,86,3 Ca])e Colony 1,645 cwt. are the dried fruits of a peculiar variety of r. vinijcra, cultivatt'd in Greece. Sultanas are the dried fruits of a seedless variety of this same species, also largely cultivated in Greece. The I-ilack Corinth or Z mte grape, a variety of V. riuii,.,,, supposed to have near and very S;: ;r ^f â " ^'r '?f -V-'-'l-lago, tunnshes the dned currants of comnu;" ' UATh. aie the fruits of the date palm {I>/iaâix dadvUhn,). This palm is a natix-e of the ^ hot ,ons of Northern Afnca : it . also cultivated thLre n, unn!;"e ^ ^^ f. ^^ m e sp,nngly n, \ e^em .X^.a and Southern Europe. In the drv parts o, .fa It is tl e pnncpal food of a large proportion of ,' ,- u,hab,tant>, .uul hkeu,.. of the various doniesfc anm,als-dogs, horses, and ,amel-, being ahke partial to ,t n^^ Viv. (I-,cns(anca) is a groumg tifteeu to tuvnlv-live feet high in faUHuable chmates : nafve probublv of .\âa , but now verv uidelv cultiv
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