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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, figure 79, 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 exceed- 

 ing four dollars per running foot, without heating ap- 



Fig. 79. LEAN-TO GRAPERY. 



paratus. Its aspect may be any point from east to 

 southwest, though if due south all the better. 



I recollect that some twenty years ago a German jeweler 

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

 Hamburghs 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 Hamburgh grapes, 

 which could not have been done without the glass. 



The border of the grapery we have in use was begun 

 by excavating the natural soil to the depth of twenty 

 inches and fifteen feet in width, for the length of the 

 grapery on each side. The inside was left untouched, 



