The vineyard: being a treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, manuring, cultivating, and dressing of vines in foreign parts. II. Proper directions for drawing, pressing, making ... wine. III. An easy and familiar method of planting and raising vines in England ... IV. New experiments in grafting, budding, or inoculating ... V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit ... / Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels.
- Date:
- 1727
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The vineyard: being a treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, manuring, cultivating, and dressing of vines in foreign parts. II. Proper directions for drawing, pressing, making ... wine. III. An easy and familiar method of planting and raising vines in England ... IV. New experiments in grafting, budding, or inoculating ... V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit ... / Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![which are more common with us, as the Mirtle, - Orange, Lemon, and others of the like kind. I Have myfelf feen the Tamarine-Tree and the Almond-Tree growing near Loudon, in open Gardens, to about T'wenty-fix or ‘T'wenty-feven Foot high, which have bore very kindly; but they were not Plants imported, but rais’d from the Fruit here in our own Soil; by which they became the better reconcil’d thereunto. I have likewife been inform’d, that Orange-Trees are growing in a Gentleman’s Gardens at Exeter, in the natural Soil, and continue there without. the help of the Green-houfe; nor do I fee any fiifficient Reafon to distelieve the fame. bie tt Ir may poffibly be obje&ted from the Expe- rience of our Gardiners and Nurfery-Men, near London, that the Orange Plants, rais'd from Seed (which of late fevera] have proceeded to raife in hot Beds, have been with a little Severity of the. Weather, kill'd and deftroy’d. The Objection I readily admit; but’at the fame time deny the Con- clufion; for it will not from thence follow, that if thofe Plants had been rightly manag’d till of a Maturity fuffcient to plant out into the open “Air, they would then have died. Experience demonftrates the contrary ; and a little Obfervation will fhew the Fallacy of the Affertion. Any Plants, whether Natives or Foreigners, if raisd upon Hot-Beds, or kept pent up in Stoves, will be much tenderer than other- wife, even in the moft common Fruit; were it only Apples or Pears; and when thefe, from their Production, have been for fome time kept up from enjoying the Benefit of the Air, if they become](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30512694_0193.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
