276 Notes relating to Botany, colleeted from 
October the 18th, 1765, I went to see Mr. Rogers’s vineyard, 
all of Burgundy grapes, and seemingly all perfectly ripe. I did 
not see a green half-ripe grape in all this great quantity. He does 
not expect to make less than fourteen hogsheads of wine. The 
bunches and fruit are remarkably large, and the vines very strong. 
He was formerly famous for ranunculuses. 
October 18th, 1765, I visited Mrs. Gaskry, at Parson’s Green 
near Fulham. This long, hot, dry summer has had a remark- 
ably good effect on all wall-fruits. Apricots, peaches, and nec- 
tarines ripened much earlier than usual, and have been excel- 
lent ; but the most remarkable was the plenty of pomegranates, 
near two dozen on each tree, of a remarkable size and fine ruddy 
complexion, of the size of middling oranges. ` One that was split 
showed the redness and ripeness within. - 
John Buxton, Esq., öf Shadwell near Thetford in Norfolk, from 
the acorns of 1762, sowed or planted on forty-two acres of land 
120 bushels, containing as near as can be computed 1,432,320 
acorns; which is nearly 34,103 acorns on each acre. For this 
Mr. Buxton had a present of a gold medal from the Society of 
Arts, &c. Years or ages hence it may be worth a journey to go 
and observe the progress of vegetation in the dimensions and 
only on newspaper authority so late as August 1 1801.—See Miller’s Rudy by 
Martyn.——4A. B. L: 
Sir Thomas Vernon of London, Knight, and some time member for that city, died 
in 1705, leaving two sons. Henry the eldest died unmarried at Aleppo in Syria, aged 31; 
his monument is in St. Stephen’s church, Coleman-Street. Thomas veon, the second . 
son, resided at Twickenham-Park, Middlesex. 
The above communicated to me mi Sir William A’Court, Bart; y pt to Mr. 
Vernon, ——A. B.L. : SUME : 
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