24 OPEN AIR GEAPE CULTURE. 



years set out a vineyard should pay to Eichards five 

 shillings for every acre of vines so set out. We have 

 been unable, however, to find any account of his suc- 

 cess or failure, and the probability is, that after a 

 short time the enterprise was abandoned. A gentle- 

 man in Hoboken, also, had a fine vineyard which 

 after a little time fell into decay. 



Beauchamp Plantagenet, in his "Description of 

 the Province of 'New Albion," published in London 

 in 1648, states that the English settlers in Uvedale 

 (now Delaw^are) had vines running on mulberry and 

 sassafras trees, and that there Avere four kinds of 

 grapes. "The first is the Tholouse Muscat, sweet 

 scented ; the second, the great fox and thick grape, 

 after five moneths reaped, being boyled, and salted, 

 and well -fined is a strong red Xeres; the third, a 

 light claret ; the fourth, a white grape, creeps on the 

 land maketh a pure, gold-colored wine. Tennis Pale, 

 the Frenchmen, of these four made eight sorts of ex- 

 cellent w4ne ; and of the Muscat, acute boyled, that 

 the second draught will fox (intoxicate) a reasonable 

 pate four moneths old ; and here may be gathered 

 and made two hundred tun in the vintage moneth, 

 and replanted will mend." 



In 1683, William Penn attempted to establish a 

 vineyard near Philadelphia, but without success. 

 The same result attended the efforts of Andrew Dore 



