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carlyer ripening of the white Frontiniac, naturally late. 



114. They have alfo grafted the early red-clu/ler or Currant- 

 grape, upon that large, luxuriantly growing Vine, called the Fox- 

 grape, which feems to produce much fairer and ftronger Fruit; 

 than that grape isufually upon its own flock* And divers other 

 Experiments of this nature they fay may eafily be made, as well 

 to have w/>/7e and black, or other varieties, as they have already 

 broad leaved and narrow leav'd, early grapes and late ones, on the 

 fame flock ' But this is not to be done by prefent amputation, as 

 in other Fruits, the wood being not fufficiently folid to bear it. 



115. As to the Arts relating to Trees, the chiefeft are thofe of 

 the Planter and Gardener making curious Walks, and Tipiary work} 

 of them ; fuchis the Dial cut in Box in New College Garden^ the 

 Kings armsfind the College coat of arms there,and at Exeter College; 

 befide the other Garden knots of Box in both thofe Colleges, and 

 in Brafen-nofe College Quadrangle ; to which add the Guards at the 

 Pbyflckgarden gate of Gigantick. fixture, arid feveral other Topia 

 in the fame Garden, all formed of the Tew tree. Of Walks, the 

 moft curious I have met with in this County, are thofe elegant 

 ones of Trees of various kinds in Cornbury Park.', and (to omit 

 the numerous Walks in and about the Vniverfity) thofe of Firs at 

 Sir Peter Wentworths at Lillingslon Lovel, and the pleafant Vifla 

 at Sir Timothy Tjrrils, from a fhort walk of Trees toward the Chil- 

 tern hills ; and for a clofe Walkthtxt is a fine one lately defigned in 

 Grimes-ditch, near Ditchley , a feat of the Right Honorable Edward 

 Henry Earl of Lichfield's, about half a mile in length. 



1 1 6. For Garden walks, I think one of the longeft I met with^ 

 was at the Worfhipful Mr. Clerks at Aslon Rbwant. And for a 

 defcent, there are none like the Walks at Roufham, in the Garden 

 of the Worlhipful Robert Dormer Efq; where there are nolefs than 

 five one under another, leading from the garden above, down to 

 the r/Wfide, having peps at each end, and parted with hedges of 

 Codlings, isrc. But of all that 1 ever met with, there is a Walk at 

 the Worlhipful Mr. Fermors of Tufmore, the moft wonderfully 

 pleafant, not only in that it is placed in the middle of a Fifi-pond, 

 but fo contrived, that {landing in the middle no Eye can perceive 

 but it is perfectly fir eight, whereas when removed to either end, 

 it appears on the contrary fo ftrangely crooked, that the Eye does 

 not reach much above half the way, 



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