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| + | * Collinson, Peter, c. 1730, describing Westover, seat of William Byrd II, on the James River, Va. (Tinling, ed., 1977: 1:423) <ref>Marion Tinling, ed., ''The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776'', 2 vols (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1977), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/J5UXEFHR view on Zotero].</ref> | ||
| + | : “A good shelter is very necessary [for a vineyard] & should be raised on all sides but the south by raising [[plantation]]s of trees of the quickest growth as hickory locust, &c. but on that side which is most exposed to the strongest winds the [[plantation]] must be made more formidable but let none be planted so near the vines as to drip upon them.” | ||
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- Collinson, Peter, c. 1730, describing Westover, seat of William Byrd II, on the James River, Va. (Tinling, ed., 1977: 1:423) [1]
- “A good shelter is very necessary [for a vineyard] & should be raised on all sides but the south by raising plantations of trees of the quickest growth as hickory locust, &c. but on that side which is most exposed to the strongest winds the plantation must be made more formidable but let none be planted so near the vines as to drip upon them.”
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- ↑ Marion Tinling, ed., The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776, 2 vols (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1977), view on Zotero.
