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gefted by Lord Chancellor Bacon, was tried by any perfon 
“ before myfelf ; but I believe Mr. Le BRocq^lefs intitled to 
“ call it his, than I am to call it mine, fince I have pradlifed 
“ it with fuccefs thefe two lad: fummers I never dreamt of 
monopolizing that method ; I was fufficiently fatisfied with 
“ theprofpe< 5 l of being the reftorer of Vineyards in this country : 
** But that I might not lofe the honour of being deemed fuch, 
“ in May 1784, I prefented to the fociety for the encourage- 
ment of arts, See. a plan, adapted to this climate, for culti- 
** vating Vineyards ; and afterwards left open my Vineyard to 
the infpedlion of the curious. 
The laying the plants in the ground every year, and train- 
ing the (hoots upon it, was in that plan the fird: article. At 
the end of the year I gave an account of the firfl experiment 
** to Mr. More, fecretary to the fociety. 
I have done the fame lately of the fecond year. This laft 
** feafon having proved more favourable than the preceding 
“ one, and the (hoots of the Vines having been laid for the 
fecond time, the grapes were condderably larger than thofe 
** of the fame kind growing on a South wall, and ripened as I 
** faid before.” 
Mr. 
* Fruit-trees of various forts have been trained in the above deferibed horizontal 
form in the gardens at Welbeck more than fourteen years. 
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