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ripest bunches with the largest berries lying on the 

 ground, and if the season were dry and warm, they 

 were free from dirt, and delicious (I think I always 

 strongly accented the de\ and so I gradually travelled 

 in thought from bunches of grapes lying on the 

 ground to idem lying on slates. 



The idea was new, and I commenced at once to put 

 it into practice by building a " Curate's Vinery " on a 

 new plan. 



I therefore placed two rows of bricks endwise 

 (leaving four inches between each brick for ven- 

 tilation) on a nice level piece of sandy ground, 

 and then paved between them with large slates 

 (" duchesses ") placed crosswise. I am, however, 

 inclined to think that tiles may be preferable to 

 slates ; absorption of heat is greater and radiation 

 slower. On the bricks I placed two of the ridges 

 of glass, as given in the foregoing figure, each 

 7 feet long, and thus formed my vinery, 1.4 feet in 

 length. The vine lies in the centre of the vinery, and 

 is pegged down through the spaces between the slates. 

 One vine will in the course of two years fill a vinery 

 of this length ; but, to reap the fruits of my project 

 quickly, I planted two vines, one in the centre, the 

 other at the northeast end; for these structures 

 should stand northeast and southwest. One of these 

 vines, which had been growing in a pot in the open 

 air, was just beginning to show its fruit-buds it was 

 quite the last of June its'fruit ripened early in Oc- 

 tober, and were fully colored and good in spite of the 

 cloudy, cold autumn. My black Hamburgh grapes in 

 my ground vineries were fully ripe in 1802 by the 



