APPENDIX I 



THE GEOUND VINERY 



The ' Curate's Vinery,' described ia the tenth edition, 

 was contrived by Dr. S. Newington, of Ticehurst, and 

 consisted of a ridge of glass placed over a furrow lined 

 with slates, so that the bunches of grapes were suspended 

 in the furrow, and in warm seasons ripened well. One 

 objection to the furrow was its liability to be filled with 

 water in wet weather, in low situations and heavy soils. 

 I therefore sought to remedy this, and one day, about 

 the end of June, 1860, 1 found myself looking into my 

 original ' Curate's Viaery,' and admiring the vines then 

 in blossom, although those within a few yards of it 

 growing in the open air were scarcely in full leaf. I 

 pictured to myself the bunches of grapes suspended 

 from the vines in the warm, moist atmosphere of the 

 trench liued with slates. My thoughts then reverted to 

 my boyish, grape-loving days, when in an old vineyard, 

 planted by my grandfather, I always looked for some 

 ripe grapes about the end of September ; and I vividly 

 remembered that I always found the best and ripest 



