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CHAPTER XXVI. 



The treatment of the Vine, as cultivated in a Vinery or Stove, 

 also as trained against a wall in the open air. 



When a house is appropriated solely to 

 the cultivation of the Vine, it is very com- 

 mon to train some up the rafters, and others 

 against a trellis fixed to the back wall. 

 When this is the case, it is necessary to have 

 a border inside the house as well as outside 

 of it. 



When a Vinery is properly constructed, 

 it ought always to have a front wall, built 

 so high that the plate upon the wall may be 

 three feet higher than the general level of the 

 soil in the garden. This is necessary in 

 order to let the border have a slope of two 

 feet from the house to the front. 



If there be no inconvenience arising from 

 elevating the house as high as desired, the 

 front wall may be built so high that in order 

 to make the border its proper depth, it 

 will not be necessary to sink deeper at the 

 front of the border, than the general soil of 

 the garden; so that when the' roots of the 

 Vines have extended as far as the border is 

 prepared, they will be allowed to proceed 



