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129 feet long by 12 feet wide, has a stem 3 feet in circumference, and produces 1,800 

 bunches of acceptable grapes a year. Another great Black Hamburgh vine is found 

 at Kiniiel House, Breadalbane, Scotland, filling a house 172 feet long by 25 feet 

 wide; it was planted in 1832. The Speddoch vine, also in Scotland, is famed for its 

 splendid fruit. 



Fig. 71. THE MANKESA VINE. (From the Journal of Horticulture, vol. xv., third series, page 140.; 



The " leviathan of vines in England " is the Black Hamburgh vine at Manresa House, 

 Eoehampton (Fig. 71), raised from a cutting by the present gardener, Mr. M. Davis, in 

 1862. After filling a house 70 feet long the present structure was erected. It is a 

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