The Orchard. 563 



CHAP. VI. 

 Vitit. The Vine. 



THere is fo great diuerfities of Grapes, and fo confcquently of Vines that bear 

 them, that I cannot giue you names to all that here grow with vs: for lohn 

 Tradefcante my verie good friend, fo often before remembred, hath allured 

 me, that he hath twentie forts growing with him, that hee neuer knew how or by what 

 name to call them. One defcription therefore (hall feme (as I vfe to doc in fuch varie- 

 ties) for all the reft, with the names afterwards, of as many as we can giue, and the fe- 

 uerall formes, colours and proportions of the grapes. 



The manured Vine, in the places where it hath abiden long time, groweth to haue a 

 great bodie, ftemme or trunke, fometimes of the bignefle of a mans arme, fleeue and 

 all, fpreading branches if it bee fuffered without end or meafure, but vfually ftored 

 with many armes or branches, both old and new, but weake, and therefore muft bee 

 fuftained ; whereof the old are couered with a thin fcaly rinde, which will often chap 

 and peele off of it felfe ; the youngeft being of a reddifh colour, fmooth and firme, 

 with a hollownefie or pith in the middle : from the ioints of the young branches, and 

 fometimes from the bodie of the elder, breake out on euerie fide broade greene leaues, 

 cut on the edges into fiue diuifions for the moft part, and befides notched or den- 

 ted about : right againft the leafe, and likewife at other ioynts of the branches, come 

 forth long twining or clafping tendrels, winding themfelues about any thing ftandeth 

 next vnto them : ar the bottome of thefe leaues come forth clufters of fmall greenim 

 yellow bloomes or flowers, and after them the berries, growing in the fame manner in 

 clufters, but of diuers formes, colours, taftes and greatnefle. For fome grapes are great, 

 others lefle, fome very fmall (as the Currans that the Grocers fell) fome white, fome 

 red, blew, blacke, or partie-coloured, fome are as it were fquare, others round : 

 fome the clufters are clofe, others open, fome are fweete, others fower or harm, or of 

 fome other mixed tafte; euerie one differing from others, verie notably either in tafte, 

 colour or forme ; within euerie one of which grapes, (and yet there is a grape with- 

 out ftones) are contained one, two, or more kernels or ftones, fome of them being fmal, 

 others greater : the rodtes fpread far and deepe. They that keepe their Vines in the 

 beft order, doe cut them low, not fuffering them to grow high, or with too many bran- 

 ches, whereby they grow the better, take vp the leffer roome, and bring their grapes 

 fairer and fweeter. 



The kindes of Vines and Grapes. 



Our ordinarie Grape both white and red, which excelleth Crabs for ver- 

 iuice, and is not fit for wine with vs. 



The white Mufcadine Grape is a verie great Grape, fweete and firme, 

 fome of the bunches haue weighed fixe pound, and fome of the grapes 

 halfe an ounce. 



The redde Mufcadine is as great as the white, and chiefly differeth in co- 

 lour. 



The Burlet is a very great white Grape, but fitter for veriuice then wine 

 for the moft part ; yet when a hot yeare happeneth fit for it, the Grape is 

 pleafant. 



The little blacke Grape that is ripe very early. 



The Raifin of the Sunne Grape is a very great Grape, and very great clu- 

 fters, of a reddifh colour when it is ripe with vs, yet in an extraordinarie 

 hot yeare, it hath got a little blewnefle caft ouer by the heat : but naturally 

 verie blew. 



The Curran Grape (or the Grape of Corinth) is the leaft Grape of all, 

 and beareth both few, and verie feldome with vs, but in reafonable great 

 clufters, and of a blackifh blew colour, when they are ripe with vs, and very 



fweet 



