CHAPTER IX. 
THE RETARDING HOUSE, 
Tue object of the Retarding House is the reverse of 
the Early Grapery. In the latter we wish to forward as 
much as possible the ripening of the fruit, while in the 
former, the intention is to retard it so far as can be done. 
It is therefore evident that the two features requirs very 
different management fact, in one, the process really 
and truly speaking, if qe — ane to the 
vine the requirement of its own or origi stitution, 
by the assistance of artificial heat at PE time <n the 
pant is best able to be benefited by it, while the other 
_ has the same applied, only to keep out the frost at mid- 
winter, and to create a dry atmosphere when the fruit is 
hanging ripe, for the purpose of preserving it. 
_ From what has been previously explained, it will be 
readily seen that some difficulty must occur, when we are 
_ trying to carry out in cultivation anything that is opposed 
_ to nature, or attempting to thwart her established vitality; 
such becomes true here, for, our intention is to stay as 
much as possible that free and brisk action which alone 
