A PROLIFIG VINE.
Tiieee will bo 1,500 bunches of grapes to cut from the great vine at Hampton Court this year. The vine is precisely the same age as the Royal Academy, 124 years, and while modern art us typified by institution has grown and flourished, the vine has been bearing more and more until by the end of the present centnry— if no mishap occurs —it will have borne nearly 200,000 bunches, or at least sixty tons. Only a few bunohes arc in condition at present, but before the end of the month supplies will be sent daily for the use of her Majesty, who, with the assistance of the Royal household, uses the greater portion of the total yield. On one or two occasions, however, the Queen has commanded that supplies should be sent to one or two hospitals l strictly for the use of the patients, With this solitary exception, the fruit used On her Majesty's table invariably comes from the model farm established at Windsor by the Prince Consort. Mr Tjrnbull, of the Nottingham Castle Hotel, Mm-rinsville, receives all rep*r : for H. H. Howden, watchmaker etc, Vic-toria-street, Hamilton.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3178, 5 November 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)
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192A PROLIFIG VINE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3178, 5 November 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)
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