138 Gardening Under Glass 



you will need a special grape house and an ex- 

 perienced grower. But here again, because some 

 people grow Grapes this waj', it seems to have 

 spread that without such equipment you can't 

 attempt to grow Grapes at all. Now, I know 

 that is not so. Because I have done it! 



In that house which I rented, that I told about 

 earlier, there were some dozen Grapevines of 

 the hothouse varieties, such as Black Hamburg, 

 Muscat of Alexandria, etc. They were planted 

 in a solid bed against the south side of the house 

 so that their roots went down under the founda- 

 tion, out into the soil on the outside of the house. 

 Thus the roots would remain inactive until quite 

 late in the spring, although we were growing a 

 general collection of things in this greenhouse. 

 The part that was occupied by the Grapes was 

 not given over to them until after we were 

 through with it for other purposes, along in 

 May. 



It was my first experience with hothouse 

 Grapes, and I was able to give them only indiffer- 

 ent care, yet they bore abundantly and produced 

 such grapes as, until then, I had never tasted. 



Under glass. Grapes are trained to a single 

 stem or cane; after fruiting each year all the 

 laterals are cut back to a single eye. The vines 

 can then be "laid down" out of the way, along 



