ON THE AGE AND 
1 So 
“ the Vine, ir,y neighbour Gervafe Coe is getting money very 
“ fall. One Vine, which he calls the Black Clujier^ covers 
“ forty-four yards in length, of a wall ten feet high. Some of 
“ the branches have been fuffered to run over the wall, and 
cover about twelve yards more in length on the other fide. 
“ This extenlive plant is about five or fix and thirty years old. 
“ But this is no datum by which we mult calculate the pro- 
“ portion of its annual growth, for, during near half the time 
of its exiflence, it was, by its proximity to places unfit to 
receive its branches, confined within very narrow limits, and 
“to judge from its progrefs within thefe lafl feven or eight 
“ years, it might, if it had been permitted, have covered three 
“ or four times the area of wall which it does at prefent. 
“ That part of the wall, againfi; which this Vine was firll 
“ trained, has a South afpedl. But three-fourths of the walling 
“ which it now covers face the Eaft, and the twelve yards over 
“ the wall the Weft. 
“ As no wine is ever made of the whole produce of it, and 
“ Indeed none, except in very backward autumns, the owner 
“ cannot guefs at the quantity of juice which it might yield. 
“ The cluflers or bunches hang very thick, and each weighs 
“ from half a pound to a pound. 
“ The public papers having lately taken notice of the pro- 
“ lific excellence of foreign Vines, numbering fometimes forty 
“ cluflers 
