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Oat chaff recommended as being exceedingly proper for 



packing grapes - - 99. n. 



Observations on the diversity of colours of Vine leaves 31 



— on lime - - - - - 48 



1 — on the proper season for sowing spring 



corn and grass seeds - 58. n. 



— « on moory or fenny soils > - - 46. ra. 



■ — on forest-trees - - 69. n. 



Oiled paper is sometimes used instead of glass for forcing 139 

 — — — . — covers, how to be made useful in forcing 



Vines - ih. 



Oleariuss account of large Vines near the Caspian sea 182 

 Old Hock, a Rhenish wine that is sour when newly 

 made, but becomes exquisite by being kept to 

 a good age - - 202. n. 



Olive, a native of Asia, was not introduced into Europe 

 and Africa till two centuries after the found- 

 ation of Rome - - 185. n. 

 . timid errors of the ancients respecting its culture 



were insensibly exploded - - - ib. 



Osyris, Saturn, and Bacchus, were the gods to whom 



the poets ascribed the invention of wine - 194. n. 

 Ox's bladder, how used to prevent the bleeding of Vines 154 



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Packing grapes, the method of, described - - 98, 99. n. 



Pain's-Hill, account of a flourishing Vineyard there, from 

 which great quantities of wine have been made, 

 that sold in London at the high price of 10s. 6d. 

 per bottle - - 213 



Palm-trees, from which the Indians extract a cooling 



and agreeable liquor - - _ - 194. m 



Parsley -leaved Grape, or Ciotat, description of - 29 



Pegge, the Rev. Samuel, his curious and important note 

 on the enormous bunch of grapes produced at 

 Welbeck in 1781 - 53. n. 



