13 OCTOBER 1894, Page 31

OLD ENGLISH VINEYARDS.

[To TED ED/TOR or THE " sponkroa."] SIR,—It may interest some of your correspondents to know that during my father's residence in the neighbourhood of Romford, between 1866 and 1874, he occasionally made wine from the grapes growing on the wall of the house, and of one of a neighbouring cottage. They were the small black cluster grape, and with the addition of a small proportion of brandy produced a very agreeable wine, which improved considerably by keeping. I took a bottle of it over to Paris and introduced it to some French friends as " Vin de Capri," when it was pronounced to be "excellent,"—an opinion somewhat modified however, when its real origin was revealed.—I am, Sir, &s., C. C. G.