Sicile médiévale, aspects de la vie et de l'art dans les âges moyens . ndishment. Là, vous verrez des vignobles heureux se réjouir aussi bien dans le plentyof faecund greensward que dans des pousses robustes et floristingshing. Là, vous pouvez voir des jardins pour être paisedpour une grande variété de fruits, et des tours construites pour le plaisir et pour la garde des jardins ; héréyou mai voir les volubles [eau] roues fléaux qui descendent et aussi monter, vider-en les puits et remplir la cisternswence adjacente l'eau coule dans de petits canaux à chaque endroit, de sorte que les lits étant ainsi irrigués, theremay croître le court et

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Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . ndishment. For there you maysee happy vineyards rejoicing as well in the plentyof fecund greensward as in robust and flourishingshoots. There you may see gardens to be praisedfor wonderful variety of fruit, and towers built forpleasure and for the custody of the gardens ; hereyou may see the voluble [water] wheels withbuckets that descend and likewise ascend, empty-ing the wells and filling the adjacent cisternswhence the water runs in little channels to everyplace, so that the beds being thus irrigated, theremay grow the short and narrow cucumbers, thelonger melons, the water-melons that approach theform of a sphere, the gourds which spread over agreater space on plaited reeds. Continuing in the same strain, which it may bewell to condense somewhat here, our author men-tions the pomegranates, both sweet and sour, thelimes, composed of three substances, the outsideboth by colour and odour being indicative of heat, that which is in the middle, an acid liquid, of cold, 82 r o r> HM o o. CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCEand that which is between the two of a temper-ate state; the lemons fitted by their asperity for dress-ing viands; the oranges (bitter) also full of anacid juice and more fitted to dehght the eye withtheir beauty than meet for this use. He bids usnotice that they do not fall even when ripe, so thaton the same tree may be found the red fruit of thethird year, the green fruit of the second year, andthe blossom of the actual year, also that this tree, rich in signs of continuous growth, is not de-formed by sterile old age, nor deprived of its foliageby the cold of winter. Further, the walnuts, thealmonds, the various kinds of figs, the olives, yieldingthe oil fitted for dressing viands and for keeping upthe light in the lamps, and the pod {Siliquarum vagi-nulce) with its ignoble fruit which by a certain insipidsweetness pleases rustics and children. It is better, he says, to admire the very high palms and t

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