A 



TREATISE 



ON THE 



CULTURE OF THE VINE. 



CHAPTEE I. 



CULTUKE OF THE VINE UNDER GLASS. 



In selecting a site for a vinery, choose a southern aspect, and as 

 elevated a spot as convenient. It is most desirable that it should 

 be so situated, as it ensures many advantages by standing on high 

 ground. It not only commands more light, air, and sun, all of 

 which are of the most vital importance, but it also escapes much 

 of that pernicious damp which always settles on the lower ground, 

 acting most prejudicially on the health and purity of the spot; 

 and, in consequence, the borders, in low situations, frequently 

 become both sour and sodden, from the difficulty there is in 

 obtaining a sufficient declivity to carry off the superabundant 

 moisture. I would, therefore, always recommend that, in building 

 a house for grapes, it should occupy a spot sufficiently elevated to 

 prevent the necessity of digging deeply. The advantages to be 

 gained by carrying out these suggestions must, I think, be suf- 

 ficiently obvious to recommend themselves ; for in very many 

 cases houses of long standing occupy low situations, and therefore, 

 in order to secure a proper declivity to carry off all superfluous 



B 



