By Mr. Peter Lindegaard: 



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which was constructed by one of my predecessors, about forty- 

 four years ago. The Vines, the White Chasselas, were 

 planted outside the front wall, and then drawn through the 

 wall into the house. These Vines used to succeed tolerably 

 well, but always suffered on the outside by severe frost in 

 the winter, part of the stems being a foot above the ground. 

 The different methods which I had seen in Holland induced 

 me to make an alteration in this vinery, when I succeeded to 

 the management of the garden. I dug up and threw away 

 all the Vines and cleared out the whole border three feet 

 deep and ten feet wide, filling it up again with new mould 

 of my usual composition for Vines, which was prepared in the 

 preceding year. 



My composition is as follows : one half the top spit from a 

 common, rather sandy, a fourth part of rotten dung from the 

 hot-beds, mixed with a little leaf mould and sprays only half 

 rotten ; a fourth part of rubbish from old buildings ; these 

 materials are well mixed together. A portion of farriers 

 parings of the hoofs of horses, horns, and bones of animals and 

 oyster shells are likewise gathered, pounded, or cut small, 

 and mixed through the mass. 



The above mentioned forcing-house is about eighty feet 

 long by eight feet wide. One Frankendal Vine was planted 

 in the centre, in front of the front wall, and was drawn 

 through an aperture into the house and then trained on a 

 trellis ten inches from the glass. On each side of the Fran- 

 kendal were planted two White Chasselas Vines, to occupy 

 the spaces, and as the Frankendal advanced, they were cut 

 away. The Vine was planted in the year 1793. Ten feet 

 from the front wall of the vinery is a Pine-pit running parallel 

 vol. v. 3 Q 



