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LXXV. Description of a Vinery, and Mode of Training prac- 

 tised in it. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. William 

 Beattie, Gardener to the Earl of Mansfield, F.H.S,, 

 at Scone, near Perth. Corresponding Member of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society. 



Read October 7th, 1823. 



Sir, 



I take the liberty to send you an account of what is consi- 

 dered an improvement in the training of Vines in Vineries, 

 which I have practised with success in those under my care 

 at Scone, during the last two years ; that you may lay it 

 before the Horticultural Society. 



The plan is simple and easy, and the advantages arising 

 from it very considerable, as will be evident to those any way 

 conversant in Horticulture, from the following statement. 

 But before entering into the details, it may be necessary first 

 to give an account of the houses. 



They were designed and built by William Atkinson, 

 Esq. in the year 1807, upon a plan, which I then considered 

 as new, never having seen any of the kind before, though I 

 had resided and practised as a gardener in England, more 

 than twenty years previous to my coming to this place. They 

 are each heated by two fires, being fifty feet long, eight and 

 a half feet wide inside, and fourteen and a half high, with a 

 front wall two feet in height, wherein are ventilators two feet 

 by one foot each, moved from the inside by means of an* 



* In a house built under my direction in this neighbourhood, the ventilators 

 were opened by the handle being fastened on an iron rod with a joint in the 



