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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
by Haworth, and the Proteae by Knight. The literature of
the orchard was also carried on by able hands. Speechly,
gardener to the Duke of Portland, was the author of treatises
on the pine and the vine. He describes fifty of the varieties
of grapes grown at Welbeck, and mentions many of the fine
vines to be seen then in England.* The Black Hamburgh at
Valentine, in Essex, the parent of the Hampton Court one,
yielded so much fruit that the gardener frequently made
£100 a year by selling the bunches. A vine growing at
Northallerton outside a house in 1789 covered 137 square yards
of wall.fi He notices the vineyards near Bath, also those of
Sir William Basset, in Somerset, who made some hogsheads
of wine annually, and the Hon. Charles Hamilton, at Pain’s
Hill (the famous landscape garden), made wine from “Burgundy”
and “black cluster” grapes, which sold for 7s 6d to 10s the
bottle. Speechly himself grew a famous bunch of grapes at
Welbeck, in 1781, which weighed 19I lbs., and measured
20 in. in diameter. It was sent by the Duke of Portland to
the Marquess of Rockingham, carried by men, like the spies
returning from the promised land. Early in this century a vine
was brought from abroad and planted at Cannon Hall, Yorkshire,
which has since produced the well-known variety bearing that
name. Haynes wrote on the strawberry, gooseberry, and
raspberry. The strawberry was being much improved, and new
and large varieties produced by crossing the Virginian with the
Chilian, a species introduced early in the eighteenth century.
Old-fashioned gardens still retained the hautboy (Fragaria elatior)
now so rarely to be seen, having been entirely superseded by
the larger American species.
A fine work on fruit trees, with well drawn and coloured
plates, by Brookshaw, Pomona Britannica, 1817, is princi-
pally taken from the fruit grown in the royal gardens at
Hampton Court. In this book, besides some varieties which
were then quite new, there are drawings of many of the old
* Culture of the Vine. By Wm. Speechly. York, 1790.
fi Dr. Fowler has told me that a very large vine covering a house wall
now exists in Northallerton, which may be the one here referred to.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
by Haworth, and the Proteae by Knight. The literature of
the orchard was also carried on by able hands. Speechly,
gardener to the Duke of Portland, was the author of treatises
on the pine and the vine. He describes fifty of the varieties
of grapes grown at Welbeck, and mentions many of the fine
vines to be seen then in England.* The Black Hamburgh at
Valentine, in Essex, the parent of the Hampton Court one,
yielded so much fruit that the gardener frequently made
£100 a year by selling the bunches. A vine growing at
Northallerton outside a house in 1789 covered 137 square yards
of wall.fi He notices the vineyards near Bath, also those of
Sir William Basset, in Somerset, who made some hogsheads
of wine annually, and the Hon. Charles Hamilton, at Pain’s
Hill (the famous landscape garden), made wine from “Burgundy”
and “black cluster” grapes, which sold for 7s 6d to 10s the
bottle. Speechly himself grew a famous bunch of grapes at
Welbeck, in 1781, which weighed 19I lbs., and measured
20 in. in diameter. It was sent by the Duke of Portland to
the Marquess of Rockingham, carried by men, like the spies
returning from the promised land. Early in this century a vine
was brought from abroad and planted at Cannon Hall, Yorkshire,
which has since produced the well-known variety bearing that
name. Haynes wrote on the strawberry, gooseberry, and
raspberry. The strawberry was being much improved, and new
and large varieties produced by crossing the Virginian with the
Chilian, a species introduced early in the eighteenth century.
Old-fashioned gardens still retained the hautboy (Fragaria elatior)
now so rarely to be seen, having been entirely superseded by
the larger American species.
A fine work on fruit trees, with well drawn and coloured
plates, by Brookshaw, Pomona Britannica, 1817, is princi-
pally taken from the fruit grown in the royal gardens at
Hampton Court. In this book, besides some varieties which
were then quite new, there are drawings of many of the old
* Culture of the Vine. By Wm. Speechly. York, 1790.
fi Dr. Fowler has told me that a very large vine covering a house wall
now exists in Northallerton, which may be the one here referred to.