October, 1907 



TV TJ" P A B r»T? M M AT A 7TMP J! you are planning to build, the Readers' 

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GROWING GRAPES UNDER GLASS 



AND WHY THE FRUIT IS SO SUPERIOR 



HAVING once tasted those delicious, meaty Black them. Then follow with the second compartment, and 



Hamburgs that can be grown in six to twelve pound it in turn by the late compartment, so that a continuous 



bunches in our Sectional Iron Frame Graperies, the outdoor supply is possible up to September. The Black Hamburgs 



grapes seem tasteless enough in comparison. The excep- can be picked and easily kept in perfect condition 



tional flavor, size of the bunches 

 and wonderful perfection in finish 

 of the fruit is due to the absolute 

 control you have in graperies over 

 the conditions insuring these re- 

 sults, such as uniform temperature, 

 just the right amount of ventilation, 

 water and nourishment. Then you 

 protect them from the sudden and 

 widely variant changes of outside 

 conditions, like the pelting of the 

 rain, the buffeting of the winds, 

 hot sun, cool nights, and so on, 

 against which the outdoor fruit 

 must fortify itself, so giving thick- 

 ness to the skin, while the strug- 

 gle takes from that delicious deli- 

 cacy of flavor and uniform blush or 

 finish, as the gardeners call it. 

 Then there is the satisfaction- of 

 having grapes as early as May and 

 late as the following Christmas. 



Grapery Plan. 



right along until New Year's Day. 

 We build these graperies of our 

 Sectional Iron Frame Construction, 

 which has great durability. The 

 straight roofed house gives good 

 results, but the curvilinear roof, 

 like this one shown, gives greater 

 length to the vines, increased fruit 

 and more head room to work 

 among them. 



By getting established vines in 

 pots, you can have fruit this next 

 May, and in the meantime the vines 

 planted directly in the soil will be 

 getting their start to yield freely the 

 following season. So now is none 

 too early to get the erection under 

 way — in fact, you want to get right 

 about it. Better write direct to our 

 New York Designing and Sales Of- 

 fice, unless our Branches at 819 Tre- 

 mont Bldg., Boston, or 1215 Filbert 

 Street, Philadelphia, be more convenient for you. We 



see the sweep of vines. the Curvilinear roof permits. 



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To get these results you must have a three-compart 



ment vinery. It takes five months from the time the vines can then send our catalog, which goes into particulars of 



are started until the fruit is ripe. You start the early construction, etc. Lord & Burnham Company, Greenhouse 



vinery in, say, January, and by May you are picking from Designers and Manufacturers, I 1 33 Broadway, New York. 



This Grapcrv,ivith its three compartments, is planted with some half a dozen varieties. 



