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prided himself on having introduced four new sorts of grapes into 

 England : — i. The " Arboyse from Franche Compte, which is a 

 small white grape ... it agrees well with our climate . . . it is 

 the most delicious of all grapes that are not muscat. 2. The 

 Burgundy, which is a grizelin or pale red, and of all others surest 

 to ripen in our climate, so that I have never known them to fail 

 one summer these 15 years, when all others have ; and have 

 had it very good upon an east wall. 3. A Black Muscat, which 

 is called the Dowager, and ripens as well as the common white 

 grape. 4. The Grizelin Frontignac, the noblest of all grapes I 

 ever ate in England, but it requires the hottest wall and the 

 sharpest gravel, and must be favoured by the summer too, to be 

 very good." Unlike the proud possessor of the " Tulipe noire," or 

 Alphonse Karr's enthusiastic old savants who fought over a 

 Buddlea,* Temple was very generous in distributing the vines he 

 introduced, for he writes : " I ever thought of all things of this 

 kind the commoner they are made the better." 



Temple turned his attention chiefly to fruit culture. Of 

 flowers he says : — " I only pleased myself with seeing or smelling 

 them, and not troubled myself with the care, which is more the 

 ladies' part than the man's." Perhaps he left the floral part of 

 his garden to his charming wife, Dorothy Osborne. In her 

 delightfully fresh and witty love-letters to Temple during the long 

 years of their engagement, we have one reference which is enough 

 to show that she, too, took interest in gardening. She writes, in 

 1654, of Sir Samuel Luke, a neighbour of hers at Chick Sands, in 

 Bedfordshire: "But of late I know not how Sir Sam has grown 

 so kind as to send to me for some things he desired out of this 

 garden, and withal made the offer of what was in his, which I had 

 reason to take for a high favour, for he is a nice florist." 



Another gardener who helped to encourage grape growing by 

 distributing vines was Rose, gardener to Charles II. and author 

 of The English Vineyard Vindicated. He offered to " all that 

 desire it sets and plants of all the best vines sufficiently tried 

 in our soil and climate at reasonable prices." f And John Beale, 



* Buddlea globosa, introduced 1774. 



f Letter concerning' Orchards and Vineyards, John Beale, 1676. 



