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twelve feet long ; this will make the height of the house, 

 at the ridge-pole, or centre, on the inside, fourteen feet. 

 The sills must be secured to stone, or locust posts, placed 

 eight feet apart, and sufficiently deep in the soil to be free 

 from danger of being thrown by the frost. Place the 

 house fronting south-southeast. You may plant three sets 

 of vines, — one in the centre, and one on each side. Upon 

 a house of this description, the sun's rays will rest from 

 morning until evening, and the crop will come rapidly to 

 maturity. 



At the time of writing the above, I had a span grapery 

 twenty-two feet wide on the inside, (see view of this 

 house,) which had four sets of vines planted in it ; at that 

 time, it was a matter of doubt with me whether or not 

 the vines were too much crowded ; since then, they have 

 matured a fine crop of grapes, and the fruit on the two 

 inside sets of vines was fully equal in quality and quan- 

 tity to those where the roots were in the open border, and 

 had more room to ramble and extend themselves. The 

 present summer, these inside vines have upon them a 

 very heavy crop ; each vine having shown from fifty to 

 one hundred large and handsome bunches. They will not 

 be allowed to mature more than from six bunches for the 

 Syrian, up to twenty for the Hamburgh, being only in 

 the fourth season. "When the vines are fully established, 

 the grapes will hang from the sill to the ridgepole, and 

 present a beautiful appearance. If there is ample room, 

 " I would substitute this house for the one twenty feet wide, 

 and with only three sets of vines. This house at the pre- 

 sent time has now been four years longer in bearing, and 

 the vines continue to do well, the inside ones being allow- 



