DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49977#0178
156
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
king also wishing to possess the place, effected an exchange of land
with the bishop. Ely was in early times famous for its vines, and
doubtless vineyards existed also at Hatfield during the centuries
it was Church property, so that when Cecil planted a vineyard it
was no new experiment. Mme. de la Boderie, wife of the French
ambassador, sent thirty thousand vines to be set in the new
vineyard, which are referred to in the following letter to Cecil :*—
. . . “ understanding your Lordship’s speech yesterday, that you
were about to send some present of gratification to Mme. de la
Boderye in regard of your vines, Lest your Lordship’s bounty
which knows the true limitts of honor of it self, should be misledd
by my disesteeming the things upon a sodayne when I valued
them but att £40 I thought good to let your Lordship know
before it be too late that I misreckned myselfe for 20,000
at 8 crowns the thousand, cometh to near £50 sterling, besydes
the cariage and besydes, the ambassador sent me word yesterday
by his maistr-d’Hostel that there are 10,000 more a coming
which he hath consigned to be delivered heer to me for your
Lordship's use.” As these were more plants than the vineyard
would hold, some were kept in a nursery to put later in the
place of any that were “ defectyve or dying.” A few muscat,
and other vines, not grown before in England, were brought
from Paris, by Tradescant, who was then director of Cecil’s
garden, and he also received five hundred plants from the
Queen of France ; Pierre Collin and Jean Vallet, who probably
brought over this present, were permanently engaged to plant
and dress the vineyard. This vineyard does not appear to have
been kept up for many years, as the last reference to it among
the family papers is dated 1638, in which year Lady Hatton sent
some vine cuttings.
In spite of the efforts of the writers of the early seventeenth
century, vine-culture was never really revived in England,
and vineyards gradually ceased to be planted. A few isolated
instances occur later on. Brandy is said to have been made at
Beaulieu in the last century, and Fairchild, in 1722, had a
flourishing vineyard in Hoxton. These were probably nearly the
last serious attempts at vine-culture.
* From family papers belonging" to the Marquess of Salisbury.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
king also wishing to possess the place, effected an exchange of land
with the bishop. Ely was in early times famous for its vines, and
doubtless vineyards existed also at Hatfield during the centuries
it was Church property, so that when Cecil planted a vineyard it
was no new experiment. Mme. de la Boderie, wife of the French
ambassador, sent thirty thousand vines to be set in the new
vineyard, which are referred to in the following letter to Cecil :*—
. . . “ understanding your Lordship’s speech yesterday, that you
were about to send some present of gratification to Mme. de la
Boderye in regard of your vines, Lest your Lordship’s bounty
which knows the true limitts of honor of it self, should be misledd
by my disesteeming the things upon a sodayne when I valued
them but att £40 I thought good to let your Lordship know
before it be too late that I misreckned myselfe for 20,000
at 8 crowns the thousand, cometh to near £50 sterling, besydes
the cariage and besydes, the ambassador sent me word yesterday
by his maistr-d’Hostel that there are 10,000 more a coming
which he hath consigned to be delivered heer to me for your
Lordship's use.” As these were more plants than the vineyard
would hold, some were kept in a nursery to put later in the
place of any that were “ defectyve or dying.” A few muscat,
and other vines, not grown before in England, were brought
from Paris, by Tradescant, who was then director of Cecil’s
garden, and he also received five hundred plants from the
Queen of France ; Pierre Collin and Jean Vallet, who probably
brought over this present, were permanently engaged to plant
and dress the vineyard. This vineyard does not appear to have
been kept up for many years, as the last reference to it among
the family papers is dated 1638, in which year Lady Hatton sent
some vine cuttings.
In spite of the efforts of the writers of the early seventeenth
century, vine-culture was never really revived in England,
and vineyards gradually ceased to be planted. A few isolated
instances occur later on. Brandy is said to have been made at
Beaulieu in the last century, and Fairchild, in 1722, had a
flourishing vineyard in Hoxton. These were probably nearly the
last serious attempts at vine-culture.
* From family papers belonging" to the Marquess of Salisbury.