same sorts may weigh from two to six pounds ; but bunches 

 have been grown of the Syrian grape, in Syria, weighing 

 forty pounds, and in England weighing from ten to nineteen 

 pounds. A single Vine in a large pot, or grown as a dwarf 

 standard, in the manner practised in the vineyards in the 

 North of Franee, ordinarily produces from three to nine 

 bunches : but by superior management in gardens in 

 England, the number of bunches is prodigiously increased, 

 and one plant, that of the red Hamburgh sort, in the vinery 

 of the royal gardens at Hampton Court,, has produced 

 two thousand two hundred bunches, averaging one pound 

 each, or in all nearly a ton. That at Valentine, in Essex, 

 has produced two thousand bunches of nearly the same 

 average weight. 



. The age to which the Vine will attain in warm climates 

 is so great as not to be known. It is supposed : to be equal 

 or even- to surpass that of the Oak. Pliny speaks of a Vine 

 which ha'd existed six hundred years ; and Bose says, there 

 are Vines in Burgundy upwards of four hundred, years 

 of age. 



In. Italy there are vineyards which have been in a 

 flourishing state for upwards of three centuries, and Miller 

 tells us that a- vineyard a hundred years old is reckoned 

 young. The extent of the branches of the Vine, in certain 

 situations and circumstances, is commensurate with its 

 produce and age. In the hedges of. Italy, and woods of 

 America, they are found overtopping the highest EJm and 

 Poplar trees ; and in England one plant trained against a 

 row of houses in Northallerton (lately dead) covered a space 

 in 1585, of one hundred and thirty seven square yards ; it 

 was then above one hundred years old. That at Hampton 

 Court, nearly of the same age, occupies above one hundred 

 and sixteen square yards.; and that at Valentine, in 

 Essex, above one hundred and forty-seven square yards. 

 The size to which the trunk, or stem, sometimes attains in 

 warm climates, is so great, as to have afforded planks 

 fifteen inches broad, furniture, and statues ; and the 

 Northallerton Vine, above mentioned in 1785, measured 

 four feet in circumference near the ground, and one branch 



