20 THE CULTURE OF THE GEAI'B. 



ASPECT FOE THE GEAPEEY. 



The house should front the south ; a slight variation, 

 provided it is to the east, so as to receive the morning 

 sun, will be no objection.* 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle of 1847, page 734, is an 

 account of some grapes exhibited at the Horticultural 

 Show, " raised in the city of London, under a glass case, 

 without fire heat, in an aspect nearly northwest, and 

 where they received only about one hour's sun in the lat- 

 ter part of the day ; they were a small black kind, and 

 well colored, a fact corroborative of the opinion now en- 

 tertained, that grapes should be sheltered from the direct 

 rays of the sun upon the fruit." 



Mr. Hovey, the Editor of the Magazine of Horticul- 

 ture, does not agree with me, in the opinion before ex- 

 pressed, relative to the aspect for the grapery. In a no- 

 tice of the first edition of this work, he says, " Not so,' 

 however, (all important,) the direction, ' that the house 

 should front the south,' or ' a slight variation, provided it 

 is to the east.' If forcing was only to be the object, this 

 would hold true; but, for the ordinarj' culture of the 

 grape, either with or without heat, it is by no means ne- 

 cessary. In our bright climate, any position but a north- 



* Cultivators of the grape have usually advised tliis position for the front 

 of the house ; several persons, who have had practical experience, would 

 prefer that it should front south ten or fifteen degrees east, or even south- 

 southeast. 



" Every house for the purpose of forcing or growing fruit should stand 

 on a foundation naturally dry or effectually dramed. As to a.5pect, tho 

 standard principle is, to set the front directly to the south." — Abercromtie, 



