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taste of the Netherlands to that of France, but he was large- 

 minded enough to get what was good from France also. He 

 prided himself on having introduced four new sorts of grapes into 

 England: i. The " Arboyse from Franche Compte, which is a 

 small white grape ... it agrees well with our climate ... it is 

 the most delicious of all grapes that are not muscat. 2. The 

 Burgundy, which is a grizelin or pale red, and of all others surest 

 to ripen in our climate, so that I have never known them to fail 

 one summer these 15 years, when all others have; and have 

 had it very good upon an east wall. 3. A Black Muscat, which 

 is called the Dowager, and ripens as well as the common white 

 grape. 4. The Grizelin Frontignac, the noblest of all grapes I 

 ever ate in England, but it requires the hottest wall and the 

 sharpest gravel, and must be favoured by the summer too, to be 

 very good."* Unlike the proud possessor of the " Tulipe noire," or 

 Alphonse Karr's enthusiastic old savants who fought over a 

 Buddlea,t Temple was very generous in distributing the vines he 

 introduced, for he writes : " I ever thought of all things of this 

 kind the commoner they are made the better." 



Temple turned his attention chiefly to fruit culture. Of 

 flowers he says : " I only pleased myself with seeing or smelling 

 them, and not troubled myself with the care, which is more the 

 ladies' part than the man's." Perhaps he left the floral part of 

 his garden to his charming wife, Dorothy Osborne. In her 

 delightfully fresh and witty love-letters to Temple during the 

 long years of their engagement, we have one reference which is 

 enough to show that she, too, took interest in gardening. She 

 writes, in 1654, of Sir Samuel Luke, a neighbour of hers at 

 Chick Sands, in Bedfordshire : " But of late I know not how 

 Sir Sam has grown so kind as to send to me for some things 

 he desired out of this garden, and withal made the offer of 

 what was in his, which I had reason to take for a high favour, 

 for he is a nice florist." 



Another gardener who helped to encourage grape growing by 



* This grape is now rarely seen. There is a plant (grown under glass) at 

 Berwick, near Shrewsbury. 



t Buddlea globosa, introduced 1774. 



