10 A TREATISE OP 



CHAR IV, 



On making of Borders for Vines and Figs. 



'"jn HOUGH vines and figs will grow 

 X well on thofe borders before men- 

 tioned, yet their fruit is not fo good as on 

 thofe growing in a drier foil. 



For at Belvoir caftle, a feat belonging to 

 his Grace the Duke of Rutland, there was 

 a vine which bore a white mafcadine grape, 

 growing out of the ftony foundation of 

 a wall, without any other roots than what 

 were fixt therein (for the border was taken 

 away from the fame wall in a Hoping 

 manner many years before I faw it) and 

 this vine produced better fruit, and earlier 

 ripe, than any other of the fame kind in 

 thefe gardens, except thofe planted againfl 

 the flove walls. Fig-trees (as I have ex- 

 perienced) profper and bear bed when 

 planted in a dry foil, with a rock near the 

 furface. 



Therefore in trenching tlie borders for 

 vines or fig-trees, the natural foil may be 

 mixt v/ith riibbifli, as lime fcraps, fmall 



pieces 



