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in gii'th, and a principal bi'anch one hundred and four- 

 teen feet in length, which, in one year, produced two 

 thousand and two hundred bunches of grapes, each 

 weighing, on an average, a pound." — Phillip's Coinpa- 

 nion to the Orchard. 



Of the Hampton Court vine, Speechly says : " "When I 

 saw this magnificent vine in 1788, the crop of grapes was 

 moderate, and the bunches, in general, very small. But 

 since then, I have, from time to time, been informed of 

 its having often produced most abundant crops, and of 

 large and well-perfected bunches." 



"Mr. Eden planted a vine of the Black Hamburgh 

 sort, at Valentine House, Essex, in the year 1758, which 

 is the parent of the vine at Hampton Court, and has ex- 

 tended itself to upwards of two hundred feet in length, 

 being so productive that it ripened two thousand bunches 

 of grapes in 1819." — Phillip's, etc. 



" At Valentine, near Ilford, in Essex, (England,) the 

 seat of the late Sir Charles Eaymond, there is a vine, 

 now growing, whose branches extend and furnish the 

 entire roof of a pine stove, which is seventy feet long 

 by eighteen feet broad. And, moreover, some of the 

 branches are trained downwards, and also cqver a great 

 part of the back wall of the said building. The vine, 

 which is the Black Hamburgh, was planted in the year 

 1758, and grows entirely in the inside of the stove. The 

 girth of the main stem, at two feet from the ground, is 

 about thirteen inches." — Speechly. 



"This vine produced annually upwards of three hun- 

 dred weight of fruit,, and, in some seasons, upwards of 

 four hundred." — Penny Cyclopaedia. 



