4 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



THE AMATEUR'S VINERY.— No. I. 



BT THOMAS TETTSSLEE, 

 Nurseryman, etc., Edmonton, N. 



JIRAPE-CULTURE has now become so general in the 

 gardens of amateurs, that a few practical remarks, 

 adapted especially to the requirements of this class of 

 cultivators, will perhaps be useful in putting them on 

 their guard against practices which lead to failures. To 

 build and plant a vinery is easy enough, when you know the way, so 

 also is the pruning and general management of the vines, but if the 

 intending cultivator is unacquainted with the proper steps to take, 

 it is just possible that he will take the wrong ones, and in the end 

 experience a failure more or less complete. I am not unmindful of 

 what has been already done by Mr. W. Cole, and other first-class 

 grape-growers, in extending a knowledge of grape-growing through 

 the pages of the Floral Woeld, and upon this occasion I shall 

 confine my remarks to those matters with which the amateur should 

 be thoroughly acquainted. I shall be as brief as possible, and hope 

 in the course of my observations to show that good crops of grapes 

 may be had with a very small amount of labour and skill. We will 

 first speak of the 



CONSTETTOTION OF THE TINEBT. 



The form of the vinery is not of so much importance as some 

 grape-growers would have us believe. But it must be erected in a 

 position that will admit of the vines enjoying a maximum amount 

 of light, for if the sun can only shine upon the roof for an hour or 

 so in the middle of the day, it will be useless to expect good crops. 

 The leau-to form, as represented by diagrams Figs. 1 and 2, is un- 

 doubtedly the most simple. It is the most useful for the earliest 

 crops, as the protection afforded by the wall is of immense service 

 in maintaining the proper temperature when the wind is blowing 

 hard from the north. It is also the best when the crops are required 

 to hang until February or March, as it is possible to maintain a 

 more equable temperature than in a span roof exposed to the winds 

 from all quarters. Lean-to's are also suitable for late summer and 

 autumn crops, and wherever a wall exists against which a vinery can 

 be erected, they should have the preference to the span-roof. Span- 

 roof vineries have certain advantages which must not be overlooked. 

 They afford double the accommodation of a lean-to for about one- 

 third of the expense, when the back wall of the latter has to be 

 built, and owing to the light entering the house on all sides, there 

 is not much difficulty in producing highly-coloured samples. 



As a matter of strict economy, the roof of the vinery should be 

 not less than fourteen feet in depth, because a less length of rafter 

 is insufficient for the free development of the vines, and there is no 

 material difference in the cost of building houses with ten and 



