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    more tlie best produce growers for each allowing , half afterwards inch expansion an increase of the stem of considerable five . The pounds size

    which while amounting , the the trunk spread in one eventuall instance of the y branches in attains England is seem sometimes to s four almost feet very in unlimited circumference . The , , ian

    parent g yards iant vine and at Hampton at would Cumberland extend Court much , Lod each ge farther , c Windsor over a were space , and they of its about allowed Brobdingnag 147 to square do so _>

    their , produce amounting respectively to about a ton weight of fruit annually , in the form of above 2000 bunches , representing a

    money value of upwards of £ 400 . On one occasion George III . having been greatly pleased 100 with dozen the bunches performers of at Drury should Lane be

    found Theatre cut off for , gave them it orders when from not the that onl Hamp . y was ton the _Coiirt munificent vine , if so grapes donation many could at onc be e

    forwarded upon as , desiredbut with it also a message from the gardener , that he could still cut , off as more without stripping the tree .

    Too valuable for its living many products ever to be destroyed for the sake of its mere substance , yet the wood is capable of being turned

    penter to good being account both whenever beautiful , it does and extremel fall into y the durable hands ; of for the thoug 7 car h -

    Ezekiel onlfit , for speaks fuel of classic it contemp authors tuousl tell y of as statues " meet and -for temp no work le columns , ' and

    formed y from it , and'Evelyn records in his _' ' Sylva" that the great doors of the Cathedral , of Ravenna were in his day discovered to be

    made of vine planks , some of which were twelve feet long and fifteen inchesbroad

    , . . active In spring even , to when its very the extremities sap rises , , the that circulation great care of has the to vine be taken is so

    to have , all the pruning over before the vernal warmth calls forth this fiow in its veins , or every part touched with the knife bleed would to death pour

    This out a notable vital stream iness , and reaches the vine its would fullest actuall extent y in " a variet " y called . the Caribean sapp Vinea native of Jamaicawhich is of so dropsical a

    constitution that from , a shoot a yard long , may be drained nearly a p times int of saved clear tasteless the life water of thirst , a provision -stricken of wanderers nature which in the has woods some- .

    been Fed by l little ying such excrescences all a flow the of winter liquid on wrap the life , pale t the in little down brown rounded so bark close of buds as the to which branches look have like ,

    mere beg one in le . rap af from idly to e expand ach art and iculation shoot of forth the into many sprays jointed of tender twigs green , and ; these

    and mostl according it y is a said to waving Carpenter that curious tendril , developed experimentalists too , to from bear supernumerary it have company sometimes , flower succeede -stalks being d ; ,

    in the transmuting branch immediat them el into above fruitful them bunches . Soon of grapes after , appears by cutting the y

    blossomlittle bunches of tiny five petaled five anthered flowerets , ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/18/