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CHAPTER XLII. 

 THE COLD GRAPERY. 



I KNOW of no addition to a country home from which 

 such a large amount of satisfaction can be obtained at so 

 small an outlay as from a grapery for growing the differ- 

 ent varieties of foreign grapes. It has been proved that 

 none of these fine varieties can be cultivated with any 

 satisfaction in any part of the Northern or even Middle 

 States, except under glass. In California and some other 

 states and territories west of the Mississippi, the varieties 

 of the European Grape have been extensively grown in 

 the open air. There the conditions of climate are such 

 as to make their culture a success equal to that attained 

 any where in Europe. Besides the luxury of the Grape 

 as a table fruit, ^o finer sight can be seen, and there 

 is nothing of which an amateur gardener may be more 

 proud than a grapery in which the vines are loaded with 

 ripe fruit. And as this can be obtained at a trifling 



Fig. 78. GREENHOUSE OK GRAPEBT. 



-original outlay, and with but little attention in the culti- 

 vation afterward, I will briefly describe how to do it. 



Our climate is particularly well adapted to the cultiva- 

 tion of vines under glass without fire heat, and the won- 

 der is that cold graperies are not in more general use, 

 even by people of moderate means, than they at present 

 are. We built one for our own use on the plan shown in 

 figure 78, which is adapted, if desired, for a greenhouse 



