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Show Corsica and Sicily. Every requisite to the industry comes from abroad. Egypt furnishes the sugar, England the fuel, and distant provinces of Italy the wood for the boxes in which the product is exported. The province of Leghorn contributes nothing but the labor. Once a Week. Camlyhig Fruit. The candying of fruit, whole or cut, is carried on at Genoa and westward along tho French Riviera, as well as in Spain and Portugal: but Ix-ghorn may be considered to occupy the first placo in Italy, nnd perhaps c:n the Mediterranean, Mediterra-nean, in the preparation of candied citron cit-ron and orange peti. The ciiron is bought for ihe purpose from Corsica, Sicily, Calabria and other southern provinces prov-inces of Italy, as well as from Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco, and the candied peel is ex;-orted to England, Germany and North America, The Corsican citrons cit-rons tire the best: then follow those of southern Italy, the African fruit taking the third place. The oranges used nearly all come from the Ldauds of .Sardinia. |