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GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 



as shown in the cut, are equally applicable for almost any 

 size or kind of grapery. Many are built in the form of a 

 "lean-to," that is, placed against any building or fence, 

 using such for the back wall of the grapery. This would 

 necessitate only the low front wall, which need not be 

 more than one foot from the ground, if the width is but 

 ten or twelve feet, but a path would require to be sunk 

 inside to give room to stand upright. The sketch, fig. 



Fig. 60. LEAN-TO GRAPERY. 



60, shows an outline of a "lean-to" grapery twenty feet 

 wide, nine feet high at back and two feet in front. Such 

 a structure, (exclusive of the " border,") may be put up 

 roughly at a cost not exceeding $4 per running foot, 

 without heating apparatus. Its aspect may be any point 

 from east to south-west. 



I recollect that some dozen years ago a German jeweler 

 in Jersey City, N. J., grew a splendid crop of Black Ham- 

 burgs on vines which had been planted against the 

 rear fence of his city lot, by placing against the fence 

 some old sashes eight feet long. It was rather a bung- 

 ling sort of an arrangement and awkward to get at, but 

 it served the purpose of ripening the Hamburg grapes, 

 which could not have been done without the glass. When 

 one contemplates the erection of a complete range of gra- 



