The largest specimen of a growing vino in Great Britain is a Black Hamburg vine in Kennell, in Perthshire, Scotland. This vine, planted about fifty-six years ago, has a main stem 22in in circumference and completely fills a glass house 270 ft long, and is still growing as rapidly as ever. Its yield last year was 2548 bunches, of whHh only aboub 500, averaging about two pounds each, were allowed to mature. A substantial subsoil of leaf mould was used when the vine was planted, bub the only extra material which the vine now receives is broken bones in half-inch pieces. The vine exceeds in size the famous Black Hamburg at Hampton Court, the principal branches of which are about HOfb long, though its trunk is 33inin circumference.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8362, 16 September 1890, Page 6
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