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in the year 1758, and grows entirely in the inside of the stove. 

 The girth of the main stem, at two feet from the gromid, is 

 about thirteen inches." — 8'peeclily. 



" This vine produced annually vipwards of three hundred 

 weight of fruit, and, in some seasons, upwards of four hun- 

 dred." — Penny Cyclopcedia. 



At the entrance to Spae's Garden, Ghent, " is situated an 

 uncommonly large vine, the stem, a little above the ground, 

 measuring one foot nine inches in circumference. We were 

 assured that it is more than a hundred years old, and, from 

 its appearance, we could easily believe that it may have seen 

 even two centuries." — Hort. Tour., Edinburgh, 1823. 



At Antwerp, " our attention was attracted by a very large 

 and ancient vine, apparently of the variety called the Frank- 

 endale, planted in the centre of a front wall of a large house, 

 which it now covers. The pavement of the street reaches 

 close up to the stem, which is secured from being injured by 

 carts, &c. by means of a wooden box. 



" At the height of between two and three feet from the 

 ground, a branch had originally been trained, horizontally to 

 each side, the whole extent of the house, or about thirty feet 

 in each direction. From these horizontal branches, which are 

 now very thick and resemble trunks, many upright branches 

 arise, which are trained vertically even to the eaves of the 

 roof, or between thirty and forty feet high. Very few bunches 

 of fruit were to be discovered, and it was evident that the 

 vine was not judiciously pruned." — Hort. Tour, ^c. 



Botanic Garden, Amsterdam. — " In front of the green- 

 house grows a large vine, about eighty years old, and which 

 spreads over the roof. It is of the Frankenthal kind, and by 

 much the largest tree of this variety which we have seen, the 

 stem being two feet two inches in circumference at three feet 

 from the ground." — Ho7't. Tour, <|'c. 



" In Northallerton, in Yorkshire, there is a vine now 

 (1789) growing, that once covered a space containing one 

 hundred and thirty-seven square yards ; and it is judged that. 



