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aiore convenient and efficient tbaa any other form of 

 border, and will soon be universally adopted, 



ROOFS OF VINERIES. 



In this work we do not intend to coosider at any 

 length, the best methods of constructing hot-houses, or 

 cold graperies, but we will suggest to amateurs in build- 

 ing new vineries, to be sure and have fixed roofs, with 

 permanent bars, and uniform ventilation on the top, and 

 not sliding sash, after the old method. 



COMPOSTS AND SOIL FOR BORDERS. 



Make the compost, for the vine border, of good loam 

 from the surface of a well cultivated field, (not from an 

 old garden,) where no trees have grown for many years, 

 and where the soil is nearly in a virgin state, but not 

 likely to be sour from excess of moist vegetable matter, 

 or exhausted by heavy and injudicious cropping. Let 

 this loam b.e mixed with one-third its bulk of sod from 

 an old headland or pasture, finely chopped with a sharp 

 spade or grubbing hoe. Add to about twenty one-horse 

 loads of this mixture, about four bushels of good water- 

 slacked lime, or better still, three bushels of lime and 

 salt mixture, made by slacking three bushels of lime 

 with one bushel of salt dissolved in water, and frequently 

 turned over for two weeks before use. If you have any 

 wood ashes, add four bushels of unleached, or ten 



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