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high, or three, made of posts, and boards or planks, same 

 as the back. Sills or plates are put on the front and back 

 walls, and then rafters at three and a half to four feet 

 apart. The sashes slip in between the rafters, and rest 

 on a strip of wood on their sides. Unless the grapery be 

 very small, the sash should be in two parts, the lower one 

 twice as long as the upper, and fixed. The upper to slide 

 down over the under one on pulleys, to ventilate the house : 

 doors are in each end at the back, and means are provided 

 for admitting air in front by the opening of boards like 

 shutters. 



The border is made for the vines outside the front wall, 

 or part outside and part in, twelve to sixteen feet wide, 

 also Iwo or three deep. This is done by digging a trench 

 or pit the length and width ; draining it thoroughly, that 

 not a drop of water can lodge about it. Then lay a few 

 inches of small stones, broken bricks, shells, etc., in the 

 bottom for drainage ; and fill up the remainder six inches 

 above the level of the ground, and sloping outwards, with 

 a good compost, of one half surface loam (turf from an old 

 pasture), and the other of well rotted stable manure, 

 shells, street scrapings, a small portion of night soil, offal, 

 etc. All these must be prepared by frequent turning and 

 mixing a few months beforehand. 



The vines may be one or two years old, and are prefer- 

 able in pots raised from single eyes. They should be 

 planted in the spring. A plant is placed under each 

 rafter outside, and carried through under the wall into the 

 house. The stem is cut back to two or three eyes, and when 

 these break the strongest shoot is selected, and the others 

 pinched off. This shoot is trained, as it grows, to a light 

 trellis of iron, or thick wire rods attached to the rafter, 

 and eight or ten inches from the glass. If all goes well, 

 it reaches the top of the house that season. In September 

 the top may be pinched to cheok the flow of sap to the 



