Cuhure of the Vine in Pots. 



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the centre, which may be used for many purposes; such as raising 



lettuces, radishes, &:c., or for starting annual flowers, early cabbae:es, 



cauliflowers, &ic., to be transplanted out in the garden; as it will not 



be shaded till the vines have 



made considerable growth; or 



vines on the coiling system, 



which will require bottom heat 



to grow them, might be plunged. 



The pit is intended to be 



filled with leaves mixed with 



manure, or with leaves alone, as £i 



at (f/). The back and ends . <^ 



may be made of common boards, ^ 



placed eight inches apart, filled 



in between the two, with leaves^ 



hay, sea-weed, or dry tan (e e); 



the front may be of thick four 



inch plank. (/) is a shelf, on 



the back, four feet from the 



bottom; it should be about 



fourteen inches wide, and made 



very strong; on this and the 



flue, all round, should be placed 



the pots of vines; those on the 



flue to be trained up half way 



the roof of the house, and those 



on the back shelf to be trained 



down to meet them, at the same 



slope of the glass, at the dis- , 



tance of ten inches. The trellis 



may be made of wire or of 



wood. 



Fig. 2, is the ground pjlan. 

 Such a house is not intended 

 for forcing in January or Febru- 

 ary; as it would require more 

 length of flue, and fires to be 

 continually kept burning, which 

 would be attended with consid- 

 erable expense and attention. 

 One could, how^ever, easily be 

 made for the purpose. In this 

 house it is supposed that, if the 

 vines commenced growins about 



the first of March, ripe fruit 

 would be obtained from the first 

 of August to the middle of Sep- 



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