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** farmer ufually afforded to his flighter produces ; yet they all 
** anfwered, when well conducted. The two lad: might have 
“ been better managed, and their profit rendered three-fpld, 
** We fpeak of what we know w:th certainty, having fee 7 i and ex~ 
“ amine d them all” 
** I have known,” fays Mr. Hanbury, Good wine made of 
** grapes growing in England, and have drank our Burgundy 
**■ no way inferior, as my tafte could find out, to that noted 
wine which we have conftantly imported from that country. 
** Doubtlefs, therefore, there are fome foils and fituations that 
will fait Vines, and caufe their fruit to ripen properly here. 
“ When a perfon is pofTeffed of fuch a fpot, then may he pro- 
“ ceed to plant it as a Vineyard, otherwife he v/ill find his 
“ labour and expence thrown away.” 
Complete Body of Gardening, vol. ii. p. 783. 
As modern inftances imprefs the mind more forcibly than 
fuch as are more ancient, I have referved the account of the 
fuccefs of the Vineyard at Pains-Hill, for my lad: and mod 
convincing illudration. It- is thus elegantly introduced by 
Sir Edward Barry, in his celebrated Treatife on wines, p. 468. 
“ From thehidory of the ancient and modern Wines, we may 
be capable of forming a more true judgment of the various 
“ nature and qualities of wines, which, in thegeneral, are chiefly 
** owing to the climate and foil. It is very remarkable that the 
“ grapes 
