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ON VINEYARDS. 



works of the Chancellor, shows very clearly that 

 the Rev. Mr. Le Brocq. is under a mistake, when, 

 in his description of the methods of planting and 

 training all kinds of fruit-trees, Vines, &c. (for 

 which his Majesty's Letters Patent have been 

 granted to him,) he says, p. 4. " I sincerely re- 

 quest they will accompany me in my illustration 

 of my new methods of horticulture and fruc- 

 tification." 



This method, according to the description, is, 

 to train all sorts of fruit-trees or Vines upon or 

 near the ground. Says Mr. Vispre, " I do not 

 know whether the above method, suggested by 

 Lord Chancellor Bacon, was tried by any person 

 before myself ; but I believe Mr. Le Brocq less 

 entitled to call it his, than I am tocall it mine, 

 since I have practised it with success these two 

 last summers. 1 I never dreamt of monopolizing 

 that method ; I was sufficiently satisfied with the 

 prospect of being the restorer of Vineyards in this 

 country : but that I might not lose the honour 

 of being deemed such, in May, 1784, 1 presented 

 to the Society for the encouragement of Arts, &c. 

 a plan adapted to this climate, for cultivating 

 Vineyards ; and afterwards left open my Vine- 

 yard to the inspection of the curious. 



" The laying the plants in the ground every year, 



i Fruit-trees of various sorts have been trained in the above 

 described horizontal form in the gardens at Welbeck more than 

 fourteen years. 



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