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Descriptive Flora of the Maltese islands

This work consists of 622 pages in 8vo., and gives a full description of the species of fruit trees and of all their varieties and forms cultivated in the Maltese Islands, along with brief descriptions of their diseases, insect pests and fungous parasites, to which they are subject, as well as their treatment. In this work, which was also very received abroad, the author was the first to attempt a full description of all the local varieties of fruits grown in the Maltese Islands, many of which were unknown outside the narrow limits of these Islands; and particularly in the chapter dedicated to the Vine, he describes 122 sorts of grapes, of which at least 37 are local varieties. The same author in 1924, published another work, in Maltese, on the cultivation of American Vines (Il- Biedja tad-Dwieli Americani fil Gzejjer Taghna). This work consist of 148 pages in large 8vo., and was published as part of the Enciclopedia Maltia, and includes full details concerning the cultivation of vines on American stock.

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