VINERY FOR FORCING GRAPES, &C. 231 



VINERY, OR HOUSE PRINCIPALLY FOR FORCING 

 GRAPES, METHODS OF OBTAINING THE PLANTS, 

 WITH USEFUL OBSERVATIONS. 



Par. 32. — Where a house is designed chiefly 

 for forcing grapes, the fruit may be brought to 

 the finest possible perfection, much earlier than in 

 forcing houses intended for other fruit trees, as 

 the vine will stand quite as much heat or more, 

 as is usually allowed in the pinery; and by 

 forcing some of the early sorts among the fine 

 large late varieties, this delicious fruit can be 

 produced in May, and by divisions in the vinery, 

 a supply may be continued throughout the sum- 

 mer and autumn. 



The vines are generally planted inside the 

 house, some near the back wall, about three 

 feet and a half apart, and trained to trellis 

 work ; and others in a border along the front 

 near the pipes or flues, and the stems trained up 

 to the rafters, and as they branch out, the young 

 shoots are trained to wires or thin crossbars of 

 wood, about six inches from the top glass; 

 sometimes the vines are planted on a border 



