116 BRiailT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



upon tlie roots of the vines after all our care in mulch- 

 ing, &c. 



To break away from a custom, so hoary and re- 

 verend as this, is almost impossible ; but we determined 

 to do it, and now present for the consideration of gar- 

 deners a vinery constructed with the border not only 

 entirely inside the house, but detached from the front 

 wall by an air chamber four inches wide, separated 

 also from the bottom soil by concrete and air cham- 

 bers, and from the earth inside the house by similar 

 air chambers, and then divided into sections two feet 

 wide by brick work, so that the roots of one vine can- 

 not mingle with the others, but each must remain as 

 separate and distinct as if grown in a pot. This we 

 call a detached and divided inside border, and we might 

 add a suspended border, also, for the border is abso- 

 lutely suspended in air, and nowhere do the sides of 

 the border touch the adjacent soil or wall of the house. 

 Under this arrangement, we attain a perfect drainage, 

 and have entire control over the temperature and mois- 

 ture of the border, and we think it will work admirably 

 in practice. 



We have just built a cold vinery on this plan, one 

 hundred feet long, with a fixed roof, and a new method 

 of ventilation, by means of numerous front and back 

 shutters, which in our vanity we are pleased to think 

 is a model of cheapness, beauty, and efiicient working 

 capacity. The house is a lean-to, seventeen teet wide, 

 built in the best manner, and cost, with a back wall uf 



