ON VINEYARDS. 



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and training the shoots upon it, was in that plan 

 the first article. At the end of the year I gave an 

 account of the first experiment to Mr. More, 

 secretary to the society. 



" I have done the same lately of the second 

 year. This last season having proved more favour- 

 able than the preceding one, and the shoots of 

 the Vines having been laid for the second time, 

 the grapes were considerably larger than those of 

 the same kind growing on a south wall, and 

 ripened as I said before." 



Mr. Vispre produces many instances of wine 

 having been made in various parts of England , 

 some of which I shall here beg leave to transcribe. 



" Mr. Bradley, Professor of Botany in Cam- 

 bridge, in his Dictionarium Botanicum, art. Vitis, 

 says, ' I cannot help mentioning how our poor 

 soils might be improved by making of Vineyards ; 

 a good instance of which is at Mr. John Warner's, 

 a gentleman of Rotherhithe, near Southwark, 

 who makes good wine from his own Vineyards/ 99 



" Stephen Switzer, in vol. ii. p. 226, of his 

 Ichnographia Rustica, published in 1742, says, 

 that Vineyards may be so cultivated in England, 

 as to produce large quantities of grapes, and those 

 so well ripened, as to afford a good and substantial 

 vinous juice, needs no demonstration ; when in 

 several parts of Somersetshire there are, at this 

 time, flourishing Vineyards, and the Vineyard of 

 the late Sir William Basset, in that county, has 

 annually produced some hogsheads of good-bodied 



