. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . tnese, amongthe most celebrated are the Hampton Court vine, andthe vine at Valentines, in Essex. The HamptonCourt vine is in a grape-house on the north side ofthe palace: it covers a surface of twenty-two feet byseventy-two, or 1694 square feet It is a most pro-ductive bearer, having seldom fewer than two thou- * Miller. 260 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. sand clusters upon it every season. In the year 1816,there were at least 2240, weighing each, on theaverage, a pound ; so that the whole crop weighed aton
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . tnese, amongthe most celebrated are the Hampton Court vine, andthe vine at Valentines, in Essex. The HamptonCourt vine is in a grape-house on the north side ofthe palace: it covers a surface of twenty-two feet byseventy-two, or 1694 square feet It is a most pro-ductive bearer, having seldom fewer than two thou- * Miller. 260 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. sand clusters upon it every season. In the year 1816,there were at least 2240, weighing each, on theaverage, a pound ; so that the whole crop weighed aton, and, merely as an article of commerce, wasworth upwards of £400. The Valentines vine ex-tends over a greater surface, and has a larger trunk,than that at Hampton Court; but it is not, on theaveraare of seasons, so productive. It has, however,been known to produce two thousand bunches of apound each. Chapter III. FRUITS, BORNE BY SHRUBS AND TREES, CON-TINUED.—mulberry; currant; gooseberry; rasp-berry; stra\yberry; barberry; elder; bramble;cloud-berry; bilberry; gualtheria a. Currant. b. Gooseberry. c. Raspberry. d. Strawberry,e. Mulberry, The Mulberry—Moms nigra. The mulberrj-tree appears to have formed an ob-ject of cultivation at a very early period in the westernparts of Asia, and in Europe. The attention therebestowed upon it must have been solely on accountof its fruit; for the knowledge of the mode of rearingsilk-worms was confined to the people of central andsouthern Asia till the sixth century. We read inthe Psalms that the Almighty wrath destroyed the 2 A 262 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES, mulberry-trees with frost; and this must havebeen recorded as a remarkable instance of the divinedispleasure, for the mulberry is universally knownnot to put forth its buds and leaves till the season isso far advanced that, in the ordinary course of events,there is no inclement weather to be a]) has therefore been called the wisest of trees ; andin heraldry
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