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cold or relatively cool houses which need not be expensive. 

 Grapes are grown under glass with greater ease and certainty 

 than is imagined by those who form the opinion from buying 

 the fruit at high prices in delicatessen stores. A grapery need 

 not be an expensive luxury, and the culture of grapes under 

 glass can be recommended to persons of moderate means who 

 are looking for a horticultural hobby. 



THE GRAPERY 



Almost any of the various modifications of greenhouses 

 can be adapted to growing grapes. Firms constructing green- 

 houses usually have had experience in building graperies, and, 

 as a rule, it will pay to have these professional builders put up 

 the house. If the actual work is not done by a builder, it is 

 possible to purchase plans and estimates, from which, if suffi- 

 ciently detailed, local builders can work. On small places 

 there is no doubt that the lean-to houses are most suitable, 

 being inexpensive and furnishing protection from prevailing 

 winds. These lean-tos should face the south and may be 

 built against the stable, garage or other building ; or better, 

 a brick or stone wall to the north may be erected. It is possible 

 to build a small grapery as a lean-to out of hot-house sash. 



In commercial establishments and for large estates, where 

 the grapery must be more or less ornamental, a span-roof house 

 is rather better adapted to the grapery than a lean-to, especially 

 if the house is not to be used for the production of grapes early 

 in the season. On account of the exposure of the span-roof 

 house on all sides, however, rather more skill must be exercised 

 in growing grapes in them than in the better protected lean-to 

 grapery. Whatever the house, it must be so constructed as 

 to furnish an abundance of light, a requisite in which much is 

 gained by having large-size glasses for the glazing. The glass 

 must be of the best quality, otherwise the foliage and fruit 



