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FRUIT-TREES HOME-MADE WINE BEER 

 BACON AND SHAKESPEARE ON THE 

 STRAWBERRY. 



|HE cultivation of the vine was 

 prosecuted with much assiduity 

 here in the sixteenth century. A 

 Nominate of that date devotes a short 

 section to the several terms applied to that 

 valuable plant and its parts, and to the 

 fruit. We find four Low Latin words for 

 the grape> besides one for what is called the 

 raisin ; and the compiler, in introducing 

 vinea, does so in a way which helps us to 

 believe that grape-growers had become in 

 his day numerous and successful. He says : 

 " Hec vinea, est locus ubique usitatus" 



The Italian visitor to Burleigh in James I.'s 

 time, Orazio Busino, already cited, expressed 



