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enough to maintain a healthy growth. Watering must not be 

 neglected until the soil is dust-dry, or the fruit will split when the 

 bed is watered. 



Four sorts are quite sufficient for an ordinary-sized garden. 

 Probably the two best green-fleshed varieties in cultivation are Cox's 

 Golden Gem and Gilbert's Improved Victory of Bath, now being sent 

 out by Messrs. J. Carter and Co., of High Holborn. The former 

 was raised by Mr. Cox, gardener to Earl Beauchamp, Madresfield 

 Court, and the latter by Mr. Gilbert, gardener to the Marquis of 

 Exeter, Burghley. Both are robust in constitution, free setters, 

 and the fruit, which is of a large size, is very handsome in appear- 

 ance and most excellent in flavour. There are several other good 

 sorts, but with the above no other will be required. The best 

 scarlet-fleshed varieties are Malvern Kail and Turner's Scarlet 

 Gem. As a rule green-fleshed melons have the finest flavour. 



THE BEGINNER IN GRAPE-GROWING— No. III. 



BY WILLIAM COLE, 



Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex. 



TINERIES AND VINE BORDERS. 



fUILDING a vinery without having a properly-prepared 

 border for the reception of the vines may be put down 

 as so much money wasted, excepting so far as the house 

 is useful for wintering bedding plants. A " properly- 

 prepared border" is not an extravagant affair, yet it is 

 the rock upon which so many grape-growers founder. I could name 

 dozens of gardens where the proprietors have built handsome and 

 roomy houses, and have incurred a large outlay in the purchase of 

 vines to plant them with, but directly the purchase of soil was 

 mooted they buttoned up their pockets, and refused sufficient means 

 to make the borders in a satisfactory manner. But I will refrain, as 

 it would serve no useful purposes. 



We will first speak of the vinery, of which it is not necessary to 

 say much, because so much depends upon the means at disposal. 

 As these notes are written entirely for amateurs, who naturally are 

 anxious to be as economical as possible, I have selected for illustrating 

 them some designs of " Paxton" vineries, erected in various parts of 

 the country by Messrs. Hereman and Morton, 14, Tichborne Street, 

 Regent Quadrant, London, w T ho possess the exclusive right of manu- 

 facturing them. The cheapness, portability, and general excellence 

 of these houses have been already described in these pages, therefore 

 it is not necessary to enlarge upon their merits. It appears, how- 

 ever, desirable to state that the manufacture of Paxtonians is not 

 confined to the plain forms here illustrated, which have been selected 

 simply for their cheapness and utility, but can be had in the most 

 artistic designs. For very early, or for very late work, lean-to 



