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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



To expect much from any green-house in this way 

 would be absurd ; because in proportion as space is 

 occupied and light excluded by the one sort of pro- 

 duction, the room for the other must necessarily be 

 diminished : but happily the grape-vine is of such a 

 hardy and accommodating nature, that, by a little 

 contrivance, one or two plants of it may be cultivated 

 in every green-house. The simplest and best mode 

 of introducing vines into a green-house is by planting 

 them outside of the south front, close under the up- 

 right glass, and introducing the shoots through an 

 opening in the masonry, or, what is better, in the 

 corner of a moveable sash. The vine so introduced 

 may then be trained in a direction from the front to 

 the back of the house, at about a foot distance from 

 the glass ; and either on the under edge of the wooden 

 rafter in which the sashes slide, or on a stout wire, or 

 couple of wires, suspended from it, or by any other 

 means, placed parallel to and within eighteen inches 

 of the roof In a green-house, where the plants are 

 to be kept in pots, vines may be introduced in this 

 way every four or five feet throughout the length of 

 the front, so that a house thirty feet long would give 

 seven or eight vines ; and seven or eight vines, so 

 situated and properly managed, will on an average of 

 years produce at least twenty bunches of grapes each, 

 or, in all, 250 or 300 lbs. of grapes. 



In a green-house, where the plants are to be grown 

 in beds and borders, and the roof of the house re- 

 moved during summer, it will be of no use planting 



