8 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
and sometimes sassafras, and divers others wholesome 
and medicinable herbs and trees.” 
But the wild grape, however luxuriant its growth, 
could hardly be expected to satisfy the taste of men 
accustomed to the vintages of France and the valley 
of the Rhine; hence their greatest delight in its abun¬ 
dance lay in the appeal which it made to their hope of 
producing, with it, a better strain than the world had 
yet known. To this end the strictest injunctions with 
regard to planting vines were laid upon the first plant¬ 
ers of Virginia by the First Representative Assembly 
in America. This Assembly, “convented at James 
Citty in Virginia, July 30, 1619,” enacted first “about 
the plantation of Mulberry trees; . . . every 
man as he is seatted upon his division, doe for seven 
years together, every yeare plante and maintaine in 
growte six Mulberry trees at the least, and as many 
more as he shall thinke conveniente and as his virtue 
and Industry shall move him to plante, and that all 
such persons as shall neglecte the yearly planting and 
maintaining of that small proportion shalbe subjecte 
to the censure of the Governour and the Counsell of 
Estate.” Following this, each is ordered to plant one 
hundred plants each year of “Silke-flaxe”; and 
“hempe, English and Indian,” and English flax and 
“anniseeds” are each required and enjoined—“each 
that have any of those seeds to make tryal thereof the 
