CHAPTER 11. 

 HOUSES AND CONVENIENCES. 



There Las been from time to time, much controversy 

 respecting the various kinds of structures which are most 

 suitable, for cultivating the grape vine. Some advocate 

 the curved line, double pitch; others again, the straight 

 line, double pitch. Some, from a preference for old no- 

 tions, think none so suitable as the common lean-to, while 

 a few who have advanced a step out of this position, 

 will admit instead of the common plane lean-to, a roof 

 with a curved line. Latterly a new notion has sprung up, 

 and we find the ridge-and-furrow-formed roof is gaining 

 an ascendancy. 



In order to make this part more easily understood, it i» 

 divided into the Cold Grapery, or growing without artifi 

 cial heat ; Forcing House, Forcing House for Pot Culture, 

 and Retarding House. 



Cold Grapery. — The form of the house for this pur- 

 pose is not so material, as the having it so constructed, 

 that it may be shut up tight in cases of emergency. With 

 this precaution, good glass, and good management, any 

 style will answer the purpose; conse(|uently the build- 

 ing may be erected to suit almost any fanciful design 

 which the architect may choose, providing there is con- 

 venience for training the vines properly, and at a suitable 

 distance from the glass; and if thought proper the whole 

 surface may be of glass, for while this house is being 

 worked, there is not much cold weather to contend with 



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