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of artificial dew, which is exceedingly nourifhing to the grapes 
in their infant flate. 
When ftrong fires are kept, if the flues are frequently 
fprinkled with water, the heat of them will caufe a Eeam to 
arife, which will alfo have a good effedl. 
When the grapes are grown to the fize of fmall peafe, the 
Vines will require a conflant fupply of water, till they are full 
grown. If the border be kept in a moderate moift flate during 
the above period, the Vines will grow luxuriant, and the 
grapes will fwell to a large fizeh But when the grapes are 
nearly 
^ I have frequently had berries of various kinds of grapes, that have weighed 
between eight and nine pennyweight each. 
I fhall here beg leave to remark, that the berries of all the different forts are not 
equally ponderous in proportion to their dimenfions. Thofe kinds, which have 
thick fkins, and have flefh of a hard and firm texture, are more weighty than the 
thin-fkinned grapes, with delicate and juicy fiefh. From hence we may reafonably 
infer, that the latter are moft eafy of digelfion, and confequently much more 
wholefome. 
A round thin-fkinned berry, which weighs between feven and eight penny- 
weight, will generally girth about four inches j and one of the fame weight, of 
an oval form, about three and a half inches. 
Although grapes of the above defcription may be deemed exceeding large in 
this country, yet we are informed that they grow to a much larger fize in 
fome parts abroad. It is even faid, that they are fometimes as large as pigeons 
eggs. 
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