Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . FISHERMAN OF GAETA. TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF KING ALFONSO. OF THE UNIVERSITY CF flJLWW KNOWST THOU THE LAND? 359 valley down to the very shore. Wherever there is a prop, a tree, a shrub, it is seized onby the joyful and victorious vine. And the most exquisite grapes grow on these vines :—grapes from which the divine juice is pressed that gives Naples its peculiar consecra-tion,—that fills it with the careless gaiety which is for ever alien to the native countries ofhops and barley. Amid the vines are crowded orange and lemon trees, covered in summer with athousand
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . FISHERMAN OF GAETA. TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF KING ALFONSO. OF THE UNIVERSITY CF flJLWW KNOWST THOU THE LAND? 359 valley down to the very shore. Wherever there is a prop, a tree, a shrub, it is seized onby the joyful and victorious vine. And the most exquisite grapes grow on these vines :—grapes from which the divine juice is pressed that gives Naples its peculiar consecra-tion,—that fills it with the careless gaiety which is for ever alien to the native countries ofhops and barley. Amid the vines are crowded orange and lemon trees, covered in summer with athousand starry white blossoms, in winter with shining fruit, and surrounded at all seasons. THE BAY OF NAPLES FROM CAMALDOLI. with exquisite fragrance. There, too, is Apollos proud and dark-leaved tree, the laurel,beloved of heroes and of artists. On the walls, and the white terraces of the houses,roses bloom even at Christmas ; and at the same wintry season you may find great purpleviolets half hidden beneath the evergreens. Above the garden walls peers the tallmagnolia with its lucent leaves and glorious white flowers. What a contrast to theirwhiteness, and to the rich green of all the surrounding foliage, is offered by the blossomsof the oleander, which seem to shine and shimmer like thousands of red flames ! Buthere again, all is mellowed and mingled with loving tenderness. No tree, no shrub,stands alone and makes harsh contrast with its fellows : unless it be here and there a pineor cypress. For creeping plants of all sorts send out their clinging tendrils to bind, tolink, and to unite one with another in perfect are the gardens and vineyards of Naples. But
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