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NOTES ON CELEBRATED VINES. 



Its stem is 16 inches in girth, and rises 6 feet before it branches off. 

 It produces 600 bunches of grapes annually, and of excellent quality, 

 never showing a shanked berry. Mr Murray attributes its great 

 vigour to its roots having got into an asparagus plantation, where 

 the soil was made up artificially to a depth of 4 feet. Mr John 

 Christie, the present gardener at Kinnell, took leading prizes at 

 some of the Perthshire horticultural exhibitions last year with 

 grapes cut from this vine. 



Having thus noticed some of the most remarkable vines of which 

 I have any knowledge, I close this treatise with an extract from a 

 work called ' The Whole Art of Husbandry/ which was published 

 in London in 1631 as a new edition of a very much older work, 

 by a Captain Garvage Markham. It is, in all probability, a 

 description of the first vinery ever erected, and from which it will 

 appear that keeping grapes till the ISTew Year is not of modern 

 date : — 



Thra. M tj^cre no toap to mafec tj^e ffirapc rtpc jipccDilg ? 



Marvis. Plinie Uac\)£t\), to nibbe omx tj^c Mooted t»it|& tart 

 'Fmcgar, anli berg old S^inc, anD tl)ug to he often tiiggel), and 

 cobmO. 



Thra. S^j^at ovDer j^abc gou tot prc^eruing of gour ©rapcg 

 toijm tj^fg Jie gat^mti? 



Marvis. ^ome feccjpc ti)cm j^angcU up in tj^c roofc of c\)mhmf 

 anD gome in cartj^en potg, cloM cohmt) feitj^ tooobtien bemh* 



35ut tf gou tJcgirc (Itbing in a coltic countrg tj^at ii3 j^avlitg capable 

 of tj^e Wiim) to |)aue Srapeg in tijeir begt anD true fetnDe, mo?Jt 

 earlg anti longest lasting, gou in tje mo!3t conuenient part of 

 gour ^arDen, ig; ebcr tj^e center or mitDle point tfjerof, builO 



a rounti Souse in t|^e fasi)ion of a rounU 29ouecoate, but mrxcf) 

 lotoer; tJje grounli=b)orlte b)l)ereof 0i)aU be abobe tj^e grount) ttoo or 

 tj^ree 23ricfes tj^icfenesse, upon tj^is grounl)=plot gou sjiall place a 

 grounliseU, anD tj^creon fine get strong stutiUs toj^icj^ mag reacj^ to 

 tl)e roofe ; lijm stuDDS si)all be placet) better tj^en foure foote one 

 from anotljer, toiti) little square barres of toooli, mcf) as gou use in 

 Slasse bjintiobjes, ttoo bettoixt eberg tJoo stuDlis. ^ije rooffe gou 

 mag mafee in fcoljat proportion gou foill; for tbisJ Souse mag serue 

 for a Delicate banqueting Souse, anD gou mag either couer it feitS 

 Sealie, ^late, or ^gle. i^ob) from tSe grounD to tSe top bettoeene 

 tSe c^tulJtJS gou sSall glasse it toitS berg strong ^lasse, maOe in 



