Hyacinths.

Spring Colchicum.
Four forts of Spring
Cyclamen.

Four forts of Narcif-
fus.
Cornelian Cherry.
Star of Naples.
Ranunculus.
Dens caninus.

Fumetory.
Violets fingle and dou-
ble, white and blue.
Fennel-leav'dHelebore.
Radix cava.
Periwinkle, white and
blue, and double pur-

ple.

Dwarf Hungary Honey

fuckle.

Affarabacca of Virginia.

A Catalogue of the Grapes in Mr. Fairchild's Garden at Hoxton both for Eating and the Vineyard, by the Names that they are called in England.

Hite Sweetwa- Royal Mufcadine.

WH

ter.

Black Sweetwater.

Black July.

White Mufcadine.
Black Mufcadine.

Amber Mufcadine.
White Chaffalafs.

Black Chaffalafs.

Black Clufter.

Black Curran.

The

Black Muscatelle, ex

The Curran of Zant.
The Corinthian Curran.
Narbois, or French
Sweetwater.

He has feveral more forts, but I have not yet

CHAP. XII.

Some Obfervations and Confiderations upon the dry Summer, in the Year 1723, and of Watering, and its Ufe.

HE Summer of the Year 1723 has been fo remarkable for its extraordinary Drinefs, that I think it very neceffary to give my Reader fome Memorandums which I have made concerning it; for as there has not been in the Memory of Man any thing like it, fo its Confequences too are as novel to us; which, to be well confider'd, will very much help our Thoughts in many Affairs, relating to Gardening and Husbandry.

In the first Place, I obferve, that many Miles about London, there was not any Rain fell from January to the end of June, that was fufficient to moisten the Earth an Inch deep; the little that did fall did hardly fo much Service as the Dew which generally falls in a Night in the Month of May; and the Months of February and March were fo hot and dry, that in many of the stiff Lands the Husbandmen could not plow for Barley, but were forc'd to leave their Ground untill'd till the Rains fell in July, the time of fowing Turnips.

There

There was very little Grafs, unless it was in fuch Grounds as fortunately lay near the River Thames, and were overflow'd by it at the high Spring Tides. Every particular of the Gardens, which depended only upon the natural Ground, ripen'd their Fruits above three Weeks before their ufual time. Afparagus was cut upon the natural Beds, about the tenth of March, and it was common to fee Cherries ripe upon common Walls at the End of April; and Strawberries were brought to the Markets the firft Week in May: Peale and Beans were fold at cheap Rates, about the eighth and tenth of May, and were all clear'd and cut up by the beginning of June, which us'd to be the time when the plentiful Crops us'd to come first to the Markets: Grapes were in bloffom in Mr. Fairchild's Garden the twentieth Day of May, and the July Grape, fweet Waters, and fome others of the forward kinds, were all ripe and gather'd before July was out; I mean fuch as were against South Walls; and then his great Variety of other forts, which us'd to begin to ripen about the middle of September, were ripe and gone about the middle of Auguft. The Grapes this Year were perfectly good; but befides Grapes, Melons, Mulberries, Apples and Pears, we have not had any Fruit worth eating this Year.

The Cherries were extreamly fmall and ill-tafted, but Abun❤ dance of them; and fo Peaches, Nectarines and Abricots, which were this Year every where in vaft Abundance, had their Flesh tough, and their Juices four, though they had all the Characteristicks of full Ripenefs; the Trees were fo loaded with them, that they were fold by the laft Retailers, about the Streets, for three half Pence

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