294 Cultivation of the Grape Vine 



which may be rolled up and unrolled as occasion may re- 

 quire. It is thus apparent to all, that, however so much En- 

 glish practice may disclaim against the growth of the grape 

 in the greenhouse in that climate, in this country it may 

 be successfully cultivated without injury to the plants. 



Our collection consists of a great quantity of plants, and 

 particularly of choice assortments of the camellia, azalea, rose, 

 heath, pimelea, cactus, &c. &c., and, for the camellia, we 

 have, in addition to the shade of the vines, had to whiten a 

 portion of the glass. These plants have all been cultivated 

 in the highest condition, and are vigorous, healthy, and not 

 the least injured by the grape vines. By the time the vines 

 require a high temperature to swell the fruit, the plants should 

 all be removed from the house, but their places may be im- 

 mediately filled with those which are suited to a greater heat, 

 and the greenhouse still keep up its cheerful and brilliant ap- 

 pearance, as we have already shown in our last number 

 (p. 263). At the time we now write, (June), the berries of the 

 grapes are as large as bullets, and the conservatory one blaze 

 of flowers, and the temperature 9G° at noon. 



Our conservatory is upwards of eighty-four feet long, twenty- 

 two wide, ten feet high at the sides, with a sjtan roof, and 

 sashes on all sides from the sill to the plate. The inside ar- 

 rangements are two central walks, one the whole length, and 

 the other from the street front to the lawn front ; another walk 

 leads all round the house next the glass, thus leaving two 

 spaces which are constructed with stages, and two which are 

 level with the walks, on which the large specimen camellias 

 and other plants are placed. With this description, we shall 

 return to the growth of the vines : — 



THE BORDER. 



When the conservatory was erected in 1841, the growth of 

 vines was not contemplated for the reasons we have just 

 alluded to. But, in 1842, as we were desirous of proving 

 some new kinds, and the correctness of others, of whose names 

 we were in some doubt, we commenced the formation of the 

 border, intending to plant the vines another year, not with 

 the expectation that we should raise any grapes worth the 



