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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![[6] ufure of this Praétice, it may not be amifi to fay fomething. . | * I call it a Difcontinuance only, for that Vine- yards have been formerly Planted, with good Succefs, in Evgland, is beyond Objection ; there being divers Places, where the fame formerly were, which yet, in .Remembrance thereof, re- _tain the Name of Vine-yard to this Day. SucuH as are curious to be fatisfied there- in, need only have recourfe to Dooms Day Book, in the Yower; the grand Record of the Lands in this Kingdom; where they may meet. with numberlefs Inftances, as well as during the Reign of feveral fucceeding Princes to William the Firit, Sir-named the Conqueror. } How they came to be deftroy’d, is eafy to be accounted for, if °tis confider’d, that Corn is a more neceflary Article for the Support of Life, than the Grape. And fince, in former ‘Times, we were oblig’d to Import vaft Quanti- ties of Corn from France, Flanders, and. other Parts, the Prices naturally were enhanc’d ; To pre- went the evil Confequences of a Scarcity, an Enquiry was begun, whether our Engii/h Soil was not as fit to produce Wheat, Barley, and Oats, as it was found productive of Viries; the Experiment anfwerd beyond Expectation ; and the Firft who fell into the Method of fowing Corn inftead of Planting Vine-yards, reap’d fuch extravagant Profit thereby, as occafion’d the ge- nerality of People to come into the Method of. Cultivating Corn Land; whilft our Neighbours on the other Side, who abounded in all Sorts ef Grain, which, by the vaft Quantities they re Caen, ‘es i fe raifed, *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30512694_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
