BRiaiTT ON GTwYPE CULTURE. 59 



INSIDE BORDERS, 



Are far preferable to borders extending partly beyond 

 the front wall outside. Inside the house, in detached 

 borders, we have the most perfect control of the vine, 

 as to moisture, protection from frost, and the extent to 

 which the roots may be permitted to extend downward. 

 The expense of construction is much less, and the labor 

 of covering and protecting them is saved. Large, deep 

 borders are no longer advocated by the best grape 

 growers, and hence there is no necessity for extending 

 them beyond the limits of the house. All the plans 

 which we shall present, for the culture of the vine 

 in graperies, form part of one entire system of improved 

 construction and management, which, it is believed, 

 renders growing of grapes under glass much more 

 economical and successful than by the old methods. 



Before concreting the bottom of the border, remove 

 the soil to the depth required, and level the border so 

 as to descend about nine inches each way to the centre 

 line, forming it so as to open into a drain built of bricks 

 and mortar along the centre of the house, six inches 

 square, falling below the concrete, but constructed so as 

 to unite closely with it. That is to say, the draina^'e of 

 the border, passing down the surface of the concrete, 

 will fall into a drain built of bricks and mortar, running 

 along the centre line, and falling six inches below it. 

 The drain will of course have a proper fall from one end 



