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ON VINEYARDS. 
Mr. Vifpre produces many inftances of wine having been 
made in various parts of England ; fome of which I fhall here 
beg leave to tranfcribe. 
Mr. Bradley, ProfelTor of Botany in Cambridge, in his 
“ DiSlionarium Botanicum Art. Vitis, fays, “ I cannot help 
“ mentioning how our poor foils might be improved by 
“ making of Vineyards ; a good inftance of which is at Mr. 
“ John Warner’s, a Gentleman of Rotherhithe, near South- 
“ wark, who makes good wine from his own Vineyards.” 
“ Stephen Switzer, in vol. ii. p. 266, of his Ichnogra- 
pbia Rujikay publidied in 1742, fays. That Vineyards may 
“ be fo cultivated in England, as to produce large quantities 
“ of grapes, and thofe fo well ripened, as to afford a good and 
“ fubfiantial vinous juice, needs no demondration ; when in 
“ feveral parts of Somerfetjlnre there are, at this time, flourifli- 
ing Vineyards, and the Vineyard of the late Sir William 
Basset, in that county, has annually produced fome 
“ hogflieads of good-bodied and palatable wine, which I 
“ have been credibly informed by Gentlemen who have drank 
“ confiderable quantities of it with the greateft fatisfadtion.” 
“ Bartholomew Rocque, a gardener at Walham Green, 
“ made wine for thirty years from a Vineyard he had planted 
“ in a common field garden; and although the ground was fiat, 
the wine was as good as that of Orleans or Auxerre, in the 
** judgment of fome acquaintance of mine flill alive”. 
‘‘ Dr. 
