DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



the spring advances, the hot and dry na- 

 ture of the manure miglit, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, be injurious to the plants; but this 

 we provide against. "When our peas come up, 

 they are an inch perhaps below the surface, and 

 the earth taken from the trench, is some of it 

 yet remaining to supply the deficiency. So 

 when the peas are high enough, and the weath- 

 er growing milder, we replace the earth until 

 the trench is level with or hig-her than the ad- 

 joining surface. This gives strength and firm- 

 nes.s to the plants, utterly destroys all weeds 

 which may be starting from the manure, and 

 prevents the heat and dryness of the soil which 

 is incident to placing hot and fermenting ma- 

 nures near the surface. We speak of this 

 method Avhich we have found in our case to be 

 a very good one, and leave for others to adopt 

 or reject as they choose. Yours truly, Wu. 

 Bacon. 



Raising Grapes in Pots. — If you will write 

 an article for the Horticulturist, describing in 

 detail the best method of raising grapes in large 

 pots, (say of the size of 16 inches high by 14 

 inches diameter across the top,) under glass, 

 and without fire heat, naming just what the 

 soil should be, the watering, fcc. — how much, 

 if any, liquid manure had better be used for 

 them, &c. — also how productive they can be 

 made under proper culture, &c. — also as to the 

 expediency of having a liouse on purpose for 

 grapes in pots, and the kind of house for them 

 if expedient — I name these details that you 

 may see what points information is needed upon 

 — if j^ou will do this, you will much oblige an 

 original subscriber in New England. 



[Will some of our most experienced grape 

 growers comply with the above request? Wc 

 have already published two or three articles on 

 that subject. Ed.] 



Cheap Vineries and Vine Bordres. — 

 Having read with much satisfiiction, your arti- 

 cle upon the construction of cheap houses for 

 horticultural purposes, and tlieir perfect adap- 

 tation to the cultivation of choice fruits, and 

 that being a subject to which I have paid much 

 attention, I c:innot but think the subscribers to 

 this Journal, many of them, must soon become 

 much interested in it. They would derive 

 real pleasure in a few leisure hours devo- 

 the cultivation of choice fruits, grown 



under glass, than from any other source, it be- 

 ing a pursuit of which a person seldom tires, 

 for the farther he advances the more in- 

 terested he becomes. In the first place, 

 let us see how this object is to be accom- 

 plished. You have pointed out the way of 

 growing fruits in cheap houses, and a field is 

 now open where practical men can add their 

 experience. Many persons who have hitherto 

 been disposed to commence something of the 

 kind, have been in a great measure deterred on 

 account of tlie expense of the materials em- 

 ployed in the construction of houses and the 

 formation of vine borders. I allude now to 

 " cold houses." In houses lieated by artificial 

 means there are expenses which it is impossible 

 to avoid. We will suppose a man wishes to 

 erect a cold vinery. His first question will be. 

 what is the shaped house I require. He refers 

 to the cut of Mr, Rivers? This kind of house 

 answers admirably in England, but will it do 

 as well in this country. Now I do not positively 

 mean to assert that it will not, but I feel cer- 

 tain that one built in the following manner 

 would answer much better for this climate at 

 least. 



It should be 2 feet high in front, and the back 

 wall should be at least 10 feet high, and the 

 width of house 14 feet, whicL would give the 

 roof a better pitch, and prevent any great 

 weight of snow from lodging, and also prevent 

 a deal of drip, and as the vines would have to 

 be brought up on a trellis under the glass, it 

 would give the operator more room to attend 

 to his vines. The frame work of the bouse might 

 be boarded with planed and matched .stufi" as 

 it is so much neater in appearance than rough 

 boards, and the difference in cost between the 

 two is so very trifling as scarcely to make it 

 any object in point of economy. The back wall 

 should have strips nailed on to the posts to form 

 a trellis on which peaches, apricots or nectarines 

 can be trained, and let me here remark, that 

 I have never known an instance of stone fruit 

 of any kind being attacked by thecurculiothat 

 has been grown luider glass. If some of your 

 correspondents, who cultivate stone fruit under 

 glass, would let us know if they escape in their 

 different localities it might be worth reading, 

 as it would then prove if it may be relied 

 a general thing or only partially so. 



