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wine. At St. Cloudj in the garden of Mr. Morel de Vindc, two leagues 

 from Paris, I saw a trellis of black grapes presenting a front of sur- 

 face of 1500 metres. 



In the Royal Park at Fontainebleauj there is an old magnificent 

 grape vine of the same kind as the one at Hampton Court. This 

 vine dates from the time of Francis First. 



There is a remarkable vine at No. 15 Marais Street, Paris, planted 

 by Racine the celebrated dramatic poet, some .160 years ago. In good 

 seasons this bears 1200 bunches. 



The grape vine at Hampton Court was there in the time of George 

 the Third. It bears in favourable years four thousand bunches of 

 grapes. One day when actors at Drury Lane Theatre had pleased 

 George 3rd, one of them asked from the King a few dozen bunches 

 of those grapes. The King said they might have a hundred dozen 

 bunches if his gardener could find so many on the vine. The gardener 

 upon this, told his majesty that he could cut off the hundred do- 

 zen bunches, and as many more besides, without stripping the vine 

 of all its fruit. D'Arlincourt says, that vine is one hundred and ten 

 feet long, and bears usually twelve hundred pounds of grapes, and in 

 1842 bore fifteen hundred pounds of them. 



There are many grape vines in Europe as large as a man's body, 

 and reaching to the tops of trees, and good bearers. The vines of a 

 similar size in North America generally do not yield fruit. 



Revue Horticole, Paris. 



Aubergine [Solarium Melongena). — This annual plant, now so ex- 

 tensively grown in our southern provinces, has been cultivated but a 

 few years in Auvergne. It begins to spread in the vegetable gardens, 

 and it has a just right to do so, for its abundant product, which con- 

 tinues from July to the frosts of the fall. And it may be preserved if 

 under shelter till January. The Aubergine must be sowed in a hot 

 bed in February, March or April, as you desire fruit more or less early. 

 The plants are at a proper time set out in open air in some warm ex- 

 posure, in a very rich light soil or humus; must be often and copiously 



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