and to take every possible pains to get the wood ripe. 

 Yon cannot have grapes without well-ripened wood. 

 If grapes are very late in growing, they will require 

 fire-heat in autumn, in many seasons, in order to ripen 

 their wood. Vines and greenhouse plants do not 

 agree very well ; but under such a system they may 

 be kept from quarrelling much. (Joh?isoris Diet. 

 Mod. Gardening, 286.) 



The most successful cultivator of the grape under 

 glass, without the employment of heat, is Mr. Craw- 

 shay, of Colney Hatch ; and the outline of his practice 

 is thus traced by Dr. Lindley : — 



The grapes are grown without the aid of fire-heat, 

 so that the expense incurred is trifling ; and, instead 

 of having rich borders of several yards in width facing 

 the vineries, and lying in a comparatively useless 

 state, or looking unsightly with straw, the walks are 

 allowed to run close up to the houses, with no prepa- 

 ration beneath of the ordinary soil, which is of a 

 strong loamy texture. A border properly prepared 

 would be better, but we merely state what Mr. Craw- 

 shay has effected without that powerful auxiliary. 

 But what is yet more at variance with the opinion of 

 many writers is, that the laps between the squares of 

 glass, instead of being either close to each other, or 

 filled with putty, are so far apart that in many places 

 the finger can be inserted between the panes. This 

 free ventilation, and having the floor of the vinery 



