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Stow gives a similar account. He says that in the records 

 of the Honour Court of Windsor Castle, held in the outer-gate 

 house, is to be seen the yearly account of the charges of planting 

 the vines that in the time of King Eichard II. (1377) grew in 

 great plenty within the little park, as also of the making of the 

 wine itself. Eichard III., in the first year of his reign, granted 

 to John Peirs the office of master of our vineyard or vines nigh 

 unto our Castle of Windsor, and otherwise called the office of 

 keeper of our garden called the vineyard, to have and to occupy 

 the same office by him or his deputy for the term of his life, with 

 the wages and fees of sixpence by the day. In another part of 

 the same work (Tighe and Davis's " Annals of Windsor ") mention 

 is made that as late as the reign of His Majesty George III. a 

 little vineyard existed on the outside of the south wall of the 

 lower ward of the Castle and between it and the Castle Hill, 

 and east of Henry VIII.' s gateway, a spot now covered with 

 grass. To anyone desirous of pursuing this subject further, 

 reference is made to Dissertations by Samuel Pegge and Daines 

 Barrington on the former cultivation of the vine in England. 



HOW TO POPULAEISE OECHID-GEOWING. 



By Mr. E. H. Woodall, F.E.H.S. 

 [Read October 9, 1894.] 



I will begin the little address I am to give you to-day by quoting a 

 French proverb which illustrates, I think, my position ; for when 

 an Orchid-grower who has only had eight years' experience 

 ventures to talk before experts in the art who have been at it all 

 their lives, he feels bound to apologise for his boldness. The 

 proverb to which I allude is " Parmi les aveugles un borgne est 

 roi," which I may roughly translate as " A one-eyed man is king 

 among the blind." Pray do not think for a moment I suggest 

 that any of my hearers are blind, or even one-eyed ; far be it 

 from me to dream of such a state of things. I merely wish to 

 class myself among those who have but an imperfect knowledge 

 of the subject, and therefore am, as it were, only " one-eyed." As 

 to the "blind," I am afraid to say how many gardens one can 



