VI. LIST OP FRUITS. 



the best, I having taken care not to let any of them 

 know which was which. But the London market speaks 

 to the character of this strawberry. Notwithstanding 

 habit and prejudice, the London gardeners have found 

 that no other strawberry will sell ; and, in /act, there is 

 hardly any other now brought to the markets. The 

 Alpines are poor hard little things ; and, as to the Chili 

 (nearly as large as a pigeon's egg), it is very little supe- 

 rior in flavour to the potatoe. In my " American Gar- 

 dener," I have recommended the forming of strawberry 

 plantations into beds, knowing that it was impossible 

 to prevail upon people in that country to take the pains 

 required to cultivate them in clumps. 



285. VINE. It is the practice in England to cultivate 

 vines only against walls, against houses, upon roofs of 

 houses, and under glass j but, that it might be cultivated 

 otherwise on many spots in the south of England, the his- 

 tory of the country most amply proves to us. For a series 

 of ages there were extensive vineyards in England j and 

 wine made here very nearly as good as that of France. I 

 remember seeing, when I was a boy, a beautiful vineyard, 

 in extent, I should think, of two or three acres, in the 

 grounds of the estate called PAINSHILL at COBHAM, in 

 Surrey. The vines were there planted in rows, and tied 

 to stakes, in just the same manner as in the vineyards in 

 France j and, at the time when I saw that vineyard, the 

 vines were well-loaded with a black-coloured grape. The 

 reasons why this culture has been dropped, are of no im- 

 portance at present ; but the facts that I have stated are 

 of great importance j because they prove that vines may 

 be raised in espalier in a warm situation in any garden on 



