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large one, about seventy feet in front; and the 

 Vine, wliicli I understand is pruned in a peculiar 

 mannei-, extends two liundred feet, part of it run- 

 ning along the south wall on the outside of the 

 hot-house. In the common mode of pruning, this 

 species of Vine is no great bearer ; but managed 

 as it is here, it produces wonderfully. Sir Charles 

 Raymond, on the death of his lady in 1778, left 

 Valentine House, at which time the gardener had 

 the profits of the Vine. It annually produced 

 about four hundredweight of grapes, which used 

 formerly (-when the hot-house, I suppose, was kept 

 warmer) to ripen in March ; though lately they 

 have not ripened till June, when they sell at four 

 shillings a poimd, which produces about eighty 

 pounds sterling. This account I had from Mr. 

 Eden, the gardener who planted the Vine. With 

 regard to the profits of it, I think it probable, 

 from the accounts I have had from other hands, 

 that when the grapes ripened earlier, they pro- 

 duced much more than eighty pounds, A gentle- 

 man of character informed me that he had it from 

 Sir Charles Raymond himself, that, after supplying 

 his own table, he has made a hundred and twenty 



