172 Transactions ofthf. Horticultural Society. 



The younger plant is trained to a building, and measures 

 53 feet 4 inches from one extremity to the other, yielding 

 annually from four to five pecks of fruit. The other, whose 

 age is not ascertained, is against a north wall, extends 54 feet, 

 and is beginning to decay. Both grow in brown light leaves. 

 The name of the variety at Duffield, is the Champagne ; the 

 names of those at Overton were not ascertained. 



75- Description of a Vinery, and Mode of Training practised in it. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. William Beattie, Gar- 

 dener to the Earl of Mansfield, F.H.S. at Scone, near Perth, 

 Corresponding Member of the Horticultural Society. Read 

 October 7, 1823. 



The vinery was designed and built by William Atkinson, 

 Esq., in 1807. It is fifty feet long, eight and a half feet wide in- 

 side, and fourteen and a half feet high, with a front wall two feet 

 high, wherein are ventilators two feet by one foot each, moved 

 by means of jointed iron handles. There are also ventilators 

 at the top under each sash, three feet by nine inches, which 

 are moved by pullies. In consequence of this mode of ven- 

 tilation, the sashes are made fast, and never taken off; from 

 which no inconvenience arises in point of ripening the wood, 

 but an advantage in protecting the flues from frost. The vines 

 are planted within the house, near the front wall, through 

 arches, in which their roots have access to the front border. 

 They are trained in part under the front glass, then obliquely, 

 till they reach the back wall, about half its height from the 

 floor of the house, and lastly up the back wall. There are 

 also cross trellises under each rafter, by which a great extent 

 of surface is obtained to train on, compared with that on 

 houses of much larger dimensions. The sashes being fixed 

 are less liable to accident, and the mode of ventilating is not 

 so apt to admit wasps as the common practice. 



76. Description of a Pine-house and Pits. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. Bv Charles Holford, Esq. F.H.S. Read June 17, 

 1823. 



The pine-house is fifty feet long, by thirteen wide, heated by 

 steam, or by flues, at pleasure. The ventilation is effected by 

 means of the top sashes, and eight moveable shutters, three 

 feet long, by six inches wide, placed in the upper part of the 

 back wall. 



The pits are of brick work, on Mc PhaiPs plan ; two are 

 parallel with each other, by which the dung placed between 

 them heats both. The dung linings are covered all round 



