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grapery as if made for that sole purpose 5 for, if the heat 

 of from forty to fifty degrees would bring the vines to 

 bear at a time, or, rather, to send out their leaves at a 

 time inconvenient for the plants, you have nothing to do 

 but to take the vine branches out of the house, and keep 

 them there until such time that they might be put in 

 again without their leaves producing an inconvenient 

 shade over the plants, previous to the time of these latter 

 being moved out into the open air. 



58. As the green-house would have given you a beau- 

 tiful flower-garden and shrubbery during the winter, 

 making the part of the house to which it is attached the 

 pleasantest place in the world, so, in summer, what can 

 be imagined more beautiful than bunches of grapes hang- 

 ing down, surrounded by elegant leaves, and proceeding 

 on each grape from the size of a pin's head to the size 

 of a plum ? How the vines are to be planted, trained and 

 pruned ; and how the several plants suited to a green- 

 house are to be propagated, reared and managed 5 will be 

 spoken of under the head of Vines, and under those of the 

 several plants and flowers j but I cannot conclude this 

 Chapter without observing, that it is the moral effects 

 naturally attending a green-house, that I set the most 

 value upon. I will not, with LORD BACON, praise pur- 

 suits like these, because " God Almighty first planted a 

 garden j" nor with COWLEY, because " a Garden is like 

 Heaven 5" nor with ADDISON, because a "Garden was 

 the habitation of our first parents before their fall j" all 

 which is rather far-fetched, and puts one in mind of the 

 dispute between the gardeners and the tailors, as to the 

 antiquity of their respective callings - } the former coa- 



