ON THE AGE AND 
or four times that area. The circumference of the trunk or 
flem, a little above the furface of the ground, is three feet 
eleven inches. It is fuppofed to have been planted 150 years 
ago; but from its great age, and from an injudicious manage- 
ment, it is now, and has long been, in a very declining ftate. 
There are many other Vines growing at Northallerton, 
which are remarkable for their fize and vigour. 
The foil is light and rich, of a dark colour, and inclining to 
fand. 
At Valentine, near Ilford in Effex, the Seat of the late Sir 
Charles Raymond, Bart, there is a Vine now growing, whofe 
branches extend and furnifh the entire Roof of a Pine-ftove, 
which is feventy feet long by eighteen feet broad. And moreover, 
fome of the branches are trained downwards, and alfo cover great 
part of the back wall of the faid building. — The Vine, which 
is the Black Hamburgh, was planted in the year 1758, and 
grows 
“ 5th. The life of artificial gralies became familiar to the farmers both of Italy 
“ and the provinces, particularly the Lucerne, which derived its name and 
“origin from Media ]]. The aflured fupply of wholefome and plentiful 
“ food for cattle during winter, multiplied the number of the flocks and 
“ herds, which, in their turn, contributed to the fertility of the foil.” 
The Hiftory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward 
Gibbon, Efq\ vol. i. chap. ii. page 52. 
H See the Agreeable Effays on Agriculture, by Mr. Harte, in which he has colleileA 
all that the ancients and moderns have faid of Lucerne, 
