366 Notices of Communications to the Society, of which 



favourable to this method of growing Grapes ; it appears to 

 have perfectly succeeded, and must be considered as a proof 

 that the Vine may, in particular seasons, be cultivated as a 

 standard with success in this country, in a favourable situa- 

 tion. Mr. Kirke's garden does not possess any very pecu- 

 liar advantages ; it may therefore fairly be inferred that the 

 accounts we have of the growth of Grapes in this country in 

 former times are more deserving of credit than has usually 

 been allowed ; for if they have been produced now in a 

 warm border, why may they not have equally succeeded 

 heretofore, especially as the absence of the artificial means 

 we possess of ripening Grapes must have stimulated the 

 attention and care of the cultivator more powerfully, who 

 could then only obtain them by skilful treatment in the 

 open air. 



At the same Meeting. Some Tripoli Onions, grown by 

 a gentleman in Norfolk, were exhibited. They were sown 

 in the spring, and not transplanted, were kept whilst grow- 

 ing, sufficiently wide apart by repeated thinnings, and were 

 copiously watered with common well water ; the ground was 

 in a good state as to manure, but had received no peculiar 

 preparation. Though the plants had been so much thinned, 

 still they were left so as to prove a large crop. They were 

 the finest sample of Onions shown to the Society this season, 

 being as large as the best imported Portugal Onions, weigh- 

 ing on an average twenty ounces each, and much superior 

 to others which had been lately exhibited to the Society, as 

 grown from autumnal sowings. The success of this crop 

 appears to have resulted from the attention given to the 



