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earlyer ripening of the white FrontiniaCj naturally late. 
114. They have alfo grafted l\it early red-duller ov Currant- 
grape^ upon that large, luxuriantly growing Vine^ called the Fox- 
grape^ which feems to produce much fairer and ftronger Fruity 
than x\\2itgrafe is ufually upon its own ftock, And divers other 
Experiments of this nature they fay may eafily be made, as well 
tohzwe white 2nd black-, or other varieties^ as they have already 
broad leav'd znd narrow leav' d^ early grapes and late ones, on the 
fame flock : But this is not to be done by prefent amputation^ as 
in other Fr///>^, the wood being not fufficiently folid to bear it. 
115. As to the Arts relating to Trees^ the chiefeft are thofe of 
the Planter and Gardener making curious Walks-, and Topiary workj 
of them ; fuch is the Dial cut in Box in New College Garden, the 
Kings arms^'dnd the College coat of arms there,and at Exeter College; 
belide the other Garden knots of Box in both thofe Colleges, and 
in Brafen-nofe College Quadrangle ; to which add the Guards at the 
Phyfickgarden gate of Gigantick ftature, and feveral other Topia 
in the fame Garden, all formed of the Tew tree. Of Walks, the 
'moft curious I have met with in this County, are thofe elegant 
ones of Trees of various kinds in Cornhury Park.-, and (to omit 
the numerous Walks in and about the Z^/ziz/er///)') thofe of Firszt 
Sir Peter Wentworths at LilHng§lon Lovel, and the pleafant Vifia 
at Sir Timothy Tjrr lis, from a (liort walk of Trees toward the Chil- 
tern hills ; and for a clofe Walkthere is a fine one lately defigned in 
Grimes-ditch, nezr Ditchley, a feat of the Right Honorable Edward 
i7e/?rj Earl of Z/V^/eW's, about half a mile in length. 
1 1 6. For Garden walks, I think one of the longeft 1 met with, 
V was at the Worfliipful Mr. Clerks at A§ion Rowant. And for a 
defcent, there are none like the Walks at Rouf/jam, in the Garden 
of the Wordiipfuli^oZ'er/ Dormer Efq; where there are no lefs than 
yfz/e one under another, leading from the garden zhove, down to 
the river fide, hzv'mg fieps at each end, and parted with hedges of 
Codlings, isrc. But of all that I ever met with, there is a Walk at 
the Wordiipful Mr. Fermors of Tufmore, the moft wonderfully 
pleafant, not only in that it is placed in the middle of a Fifi-pond, 
but fo contrived, that ftanding in the middle no Eye can perceive 
but it is perfectly fireight, whereas when removed to either end^ 
it appears on the contrary fo ftrangely crooked, that the Eye does 
not reach much above half the way, 
117. Which 
