29 SEPTEMBER 1894, Page 17

OLD ENGLISH VINEYARDS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " EIPEOTLTOR."1

Sin,—How common vine-growing once was in England, may be seen from the following lines in the media3val romance, " Alexander " (Weber, i., 238), which rank the grape with pears, apples, and corn as part of the regular harvest "In tyme of hervest many it is ynough s Peres and apples hongen on bough. The hay-ward bloweth mery his horns; Iii everyche felde ripe is corns ; The grapes hongen on the vyne : Swete is trewe love and fyne."

These lines are also a fair specimen of the kind of feeling for Nature found in the poets of the period.—I am, Sir, Sic., F. B.

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