CHAPTER VII 
THE EARLY GRAPERY, OR FOROCIN:t 
HOUSE. 
Wuen the gardener aspires to the high attainmert of 
m ing or improving landscape, he ought to possess the 
marvellous ideality of the poet, and should be acquainted 
— 3 nice perceptions ef light and shade that the 
nsitive painter is endowed with; but when hi 
abilities are applied to the forcing of the — it may be 
i e puts his best practical talent a rving 
faculties in the most elevated position. It is na that 
there are many details of another character which require 
as much skill, and they may be as successfully carriec 
out, but the popularity of this justly esteemed fruit eclipses 
everything else, and he looks with feelings of enthusiastic 
pride upon the crep, as he views the fine clusters hanging 
from his thrifty vines. 
who are satisfied to have ripe grapes by the mid- 
dle or latter end of June, need incur no very extraordinary 
expense, but whoever would require the same at the be- 
ginning of May, must expect to swallow dear morsels, and 
there are not many, excepting those who have wealth at 
enmmand that will attempt it. There is, however, a grow- 
ing desire to enjoy the luxury, and in eneourage- 
nent is given to the commercial cultivator in the higher 
