A 



TBEATISE 



ON THE 



CULTURE OF THE YINE. 



CHAPTER I. 



CULTURE OF THE VINE UNDER GLASS. 



IN selecting a site for a vinery, choose a southern aspect, and 

 as elevated a spot as convenient. It is most desirable that it 

 shouldbe so situated, as it ensures many advantages by stand- 

 ing on high ground. It not only commands more light, air, and 

 sun, all of which are of the most vital importance, but it also 

 escapes much of that pernicious damp which always settles on 

 the lower ground, acting most prejudicially on the health and 

 purity of the spot ; and, in consequence, the borders, in low 

 situations, frequently become both sour and sodden, from the 

 difficulty there is in obtaining a sufficient declivity to carry 

 off the superabundant moisture. I would, therefore, always 

 recommend that, in building a house for grapes, it should 

 occupy a spot sufficiently elevated to prevent the necessity of 

 digging deeply. The advantages to be gained by carrying out 

 these suggestions must, I think, be sufficiently obvious to 

 recommend themselves ; for in very many cases houses of 

 long standing occupy low situations, and therefore, in order 



