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ON VINEYARDS. 
from that great and fagacious philofopher Lord Chancellor 
Bacon, who fays, ** The lownefs of the fruit-boughs makes 
tlie fruit greater, and caufes it to ripen better; for we always 
fee in apricots, peaches, and mello-cottons upon a wall, the 
largefl fruit is towards the bottom ; and in France, the grapes 
that make the wine grow upon low Vines bound to fmall 
flakes, while the raifed Vines in arbours make verjuice.” 
He adds, “ It is reported, that in fome places Vines are fuf- 
fered to grow like herbs, fpreading upon the ground, and 
the grapes of thefe Vines are very large ; it were proper to try 
whether plants ufually fuftained by props, will not bear large 
leaves and fruit, if laid along the ground, as hops, ivy, wood- 
bine, See.” 
This lafl citation, fays Mr. Vifpre, from the works of the 
Chancellor, fhews very clearly that the Rev. Mr. Le Brocq^ 
is under a miflake ; when, in his defeription of the methods 
of planting and training all kinds of fruit-trees. Vines, .&c. 
(for which his Majefly’s Letters Patent have been granted to 
him) he fays, p. 4, ** I fincerely requefl they will accompany 
me in my illuflration of my new methods of horticulture and 
frudlification.” 
This method, according to the defeription, is, to train all 
forts of fruit-trees or Vines upon or near the ground. Says 
Mr. Vifpre, “ I do not know whether the above method, fug- 
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