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Mr. Milne supplies a compound vapour to his 

 vines by sprinkling his vinery every afternoon, when 

 first shut up, with water, and then throwing down 

 about a quart of gas ammoniacal liquor on the front 

 pathway. When thrown on the soil, he has found 

 that the liquor did not smell so much as when sprin- 

 kled on the stones or hard-burnt bricks. He has no 

 doubt but this method would be sufficient without 

 placing it in cans, if it could be applied in the morn- 

 ing without offence to the family. It has a bad' ap- 

 pearance on the pathway, and no lady or gentleman 

 would like to walk over it ; its smell being bad enough, 

 without the sight of it. He had three tin cans, hold- 

 ing about a quart each, in a house 42 feet long ; and 

 he found that in two days the liquor wasted to one- 

 third of its usual bulk, and changed from a clear 

 small-beer colour to a thick substance like coal-tar. 

 It was never applied to the roots of the vines. 

 (Gard. Chron. 1842, 761.) 



Closely connected with the regulation of the vinery's 

 atmospheric moisture, is the due admission of air, 

 (see Ventilation) ; indeed, it will be found that 

 every writer has found himself more or less obliged 

 to amalgamate the two when considering ventilation, 

 as in the following comprehensive and sound remarks 

 of " A Practical Observer." He says — 



A hygrometer is just as necessary in a vinery as a 

 thermometer, and probably the time will soon come 



