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discharge its smoke on a level grass-plot, without any shaft or 

 chimney, I have never been at a loss to cure the most obstinate 

 smoky flue or chimney that came in my way. I should like 

 to remind all gardeners who have any thing to do with drains, 

 or lead pipes, or waterworks, &c, not to forget the powers of 

 the syphon. A most eminent stone-mason and builder in- 

 formed me, that he lately lost forty pounds by merely forgetting 

 the powers of the syphon. He cut a great drain through a 

 stubborn, yet useless rock, to lay his quarry dry ; whereas 

 thirty pounds would have purchased a lead pipe, which would 

 have answered every purpose, and been a good pipe after the 

 work was completed : and I may add that I have seen several 

 forty pounds thrown away in a similar manner, but whether 

 from forgetting, or from never knowing, I leave the joint-stock- 

 water-companies to judge. But I perceive I have again nearly 

 filled my sheet without entering upon any subject, for this seems 

 only a sort of autobiography ; but I have picked up a subject 

 this moment which will likely occupy a good many sheets, and 

 that is, I will describe a situation for a mansion-house, then 

 build it, and all its necessary appendages, then decorate and 

 beautify it, with all the luxuries that England can afford ; but 

 lest I get giddy-headed, and build castles in the air, I will at 

 the present subscribe myself Yours, &c. 



Agronome. 



Art. VII. Design for a Vinery, by which the earliest and 

 the latest Grapes may be obtained in the same Structure. By 

 Mr. A. Middleton. 



Sir, > 



I have long had an opinion that the construction of vine- 

 ries might be improved, as well on the principle of economy, 

 as for extending the advantages to be derived from them ; but, 

 being an obscure individual, pnd a stranger in this country, I 

 have not had the boldness to submit my plan to the notice of 

 those better qualified to judge of it than myself. I may in the 

 first place refer to the ordinary way of making a border for 

 vines, which I think is generally erroneous. A pit three or 

 four feet deep is dug out, and filled with rich compost ; and, 

 not being properly drained, the lower part of this compost 

 soon becomes saturated with stagnant water, altogether un- 

 suitable for the vine. Instead of this, I recommend that 

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