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Notes and Gleanings. 



galvanized wire passing through them. They are placed at angles so as to form 

 the shape above mentioned, and two feet apart. Each post is grooved, so as to 

 admit of pieces of glass, twenty-four inches wide, sliding down edge to edge, no 

 putty being employed ; so that what is called iht glazing is the work of a few 

 minutes. In each of the five spaces .between the posts a vine is planted, and 

 supported by wires stretched from post to post. The remaining space on the 

 north is occupied with a door for entrance to the interior of the cylinder, which, 

 in the present instance, is formed of painted calico on a light frame ; but it may, 

 of course, be made with thin boards. 



My description of the cylinder-vinery is, I fear, very lame ; but the accompa- 

 nying illustration, in which the door is represented open and the vines in pots, 

 will, I think, give your readers an idea of its appearance : — 



An hexagonal cylinder-vinery is exactly like a six-sided transparent sentry-box. 

 from nine to ten feet in height. There is, Ijowever, one peculiarity which makes 

 the structure and its application perfectly original: it has no roof and no ventila- 

 tion below, the glass touching the ground. This, at first sight, seems perfectly 

 incongruous, and as if it must be fatal to healthy growth : it is, however, not 

 so ; for vines and fruit-trees grow with extraordinary healthy vigor in these 

 cylinders ; the current of cool air in sunny weather constantly descending, and 



