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a half : it was nineteen inches and a half in 

 the greatest diameter, four feet and a half in 

 circumference, and twenty-one inches and 

 three quarters in length. It was conveyed to 

 Wentworth House, a distance of- twenty miles, 

 by four labourers, who carried it suspended 

 on a staff, in pairs, by turns. 



The vine at Hampton-Court Palace, which 

 was planted in the year 1769, has a stem of 

 thirteen inches in girth, and a principal 

 branch 1 14 feet in length, which, in one year, 

 produced two thousand and two hundred 

 bunches of grapes, each weighing, on an ave- 

 rage, a pound. His late revered Majesty en- 

 joyed the fruit of this vine half a century. 

 Fruit was the only luxury in which he in- 

 dulged himself, and that was cultivated in the 

 Royal Gardens to the highest perfection, and 

 served at table in great abundance. 



Mr. Eden planted a vine of the black 

 Hamburg sort, at Valentine House, Essex, in 

 the year 1758, which is the parent of the vine 

 at Hampton Court, and has extended itself to 

 upwards of 200 feet in length, being so pro- 

 ductive, that it ripened two thousand bunches 

 of grapes in the year 1819- 



Speechly describes a vine, which was 

 growing in the open air at Northallerton, in 

 Yorkshire, in 1789, that had once covered 



