The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ardens here and adapt them to the modernstyle, had the good sense and honesty to decline the un-promising task, out of respect to himself and his profes- ^ See vol. i., p. 251. Walpoles Modern Gardenings he was ^ According to Dallaway, however, not appointed Royal Gardener atin his Supplementary Anecdotes to Hampton Court until after 1770. 17 69] The Gardens under Capability Brown. 297 sion; and thus they escaped the destruction that overtookso many of the old gardens of England, and have preserved—especially the Privy Gardens—much of their
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ardens here and adapt them to the modernstyle, had the good sense and honesty to decline the un-promising task, out of respect to himself and his profes- ^ See vol. i., p. 251. Walpoles Modern Gardenings he was ^ According to Dallaway, however, not appointed Royal Gardener atin his Supplementary Anecdotes to Hampton Court until after 1770. 17 69] The Gardens under Capability Brown. 297 sion; and thus they escaped the destruction that overtookso many of the old gardens of England, and have preserved—especially the Privy Gardens—much of their charmingold-fashioned air to this day. Nevertheless, it was probably he, who replaced most ofthe terrace steps in the Privy Gardens—though two flightswere left—by gravel and grass slopes, for the theoreticreason that we ought not to go up and down stairsin the open air. We may presume, also, that to him weowe something more interesting anduseful, namely, the planting in1769, in a corner of theold Pond Garden, ofthe famous vine,which hasnow,. The Great Vine. (From a woodcut made about 1840,) for upwards of a hundred years, been one of the greatsights and curiosities of Hampton Court. The vine is of the Black Hamburgh variety, and wasoriginally a slip off one at Valentines, in the parish ofIlford, near Wanstead, in Essex, which itself had beenplanted in 1758 and attained a portentous size.^ Thevine at Hampton Court seems to have grown with much Notes and Queries, vol. xii., p. 404. 298 History of Hampton Court Palace. [1769 rapidity; for, some twenty years after it was planted,namely, in 1800, its yield was reported to be 2,200 bunches,weighing, on an average, a pound each, its stem 13 inchesin girth, and its main branch 114 feet long; ^ while a visitorto Hampton Court in 1813 notes that it had the year beforeborne 2,278 bunches, and that the house was 72 feet long by20 feet wide.^ Forty years ago its yield was stated to be, on an average,between 2,300 and 2,500 bunches,
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