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CHAPTER V. 

 GRAPES. 



SECTION I. 



On the ConJlruElhn of the Grape-Hovfe. 



THIS delicious and juftly-efteemed fruit 

 is now cultivated with fuch general 

 eagernefs in this country, that a garden 

 unprovided with one or more compart- 

 ments for its production is not only rec- 

 koned incomplete, but hardly to be met 

 with *. Thefe vary exceedingly in con- 

 ftrudtion; and, although fome lay great 

 ftrefs on this article, and there are ex- 

 tremes which ought not to be followed, 

 yet I am convinced the failure of fucceft, 

 in the production of the Grape, is much 

 lefs a confequence of bad conftruction in 

 the houfe, than in the preparation of the 



border, 



* I would here be underftood as fpeaking of noble- 

 men's or gentlemen's gardens in general, although there 

 are alfo fome Grape-houfes found in market gardens. 



