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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