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THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. Observations on the Growth of Early and Late Grapes 

 under Glass. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. 

 James Acon, Corresponding Member of the Horticultural 

 Society of London, Gardener to the Earl of Surrey, 

 F. H. S. at Worksop Manor. 



Read March 7, 1826. 



Sir, 



I send you the Sections of the Early and Late Graperies at 

 Worksop Manor, agreeably to your desire. The first of 

 these, which was the house you so particularly noticed, had 

 previously been a Pinery, and was reconstructed in the 

 beginning of last year in the present form, to be employed 

 solely for the production of Early Grapes. With the addition 

 of this house to the others in the garden, I am now enabled 

 to provide a regular supply of fruit, in a perfect state for the 

 table, throughout the year. There are very few places in 

 the kingdom where this is successfully accomplished ; partly 

 from the injudicious plans on which the early houses are 



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