degree injure it's circulation; yet it fiilly 

 compenfates the injury by the beauty, and 

 fragrancy of it's flowers : 



With clafping tendrils it invefts the branch, 

 Elfe unadorned, with many a gay feftoon, 

 And fragrant chaplet ; recompenfmg well 

 The ftrength it borrows with the grace it lend*. 



Under warm funs, where vines are the 

 offspring of nature, nothing can be more beau- 

 tiful than the foreft tree, adorned with their 

 twifting branches, hanging from bough to 

 bough ; and laden with fruit ; 



-the clufters clear 



Half through the foliage feen 



In the road between Pifa and Florence, 

 Dr. Smollet informs us, the country is often 

 thus adorned- The vines are not planted in 

 rows, and propped with flicks, as in France, 

 and the county of Nice ; but twine naturally 

 around the hedge-row-trees, which they almoft 

 cover with their foliage, and fruit. Extending 

 from tree to tree, they exhibit beautiful fef- 

 toons of leaves, tendrils, and fwelling clufters, 

 black and white, hanging down from every 



bough 



