VINERIES. 



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acted upon at one end, by which the and down. A flow and return hot-water 



whole are opened or shut simultaneously, pipe runs along the back wall, suspended 



Top ventilation is effected by the upper from strong iron brackets placed at equal 



tier of roof sashes being made to slide up distances along the whole length of the 



Fig. 427. 



Fig. 428. 



house. The hot-water pipes in front are 

 suspended from a very ornamental set of 

 brackets, which also serve for supporting 

 a table on which strawberries, French 

 beans, &c, may be advantageously forced. 

 Neat slate cisterns are placed close to the 

 back wall, and supplied abundantly with 

 water from the general main of the 

 garden. 



Fig. 428 shows a very ingenious mode 

 of taking the vines out of one of the vi- 

 neries in the same 

 establishment. A niche 

 is formed in the front 

 parapet wall opposite 

 to where each vine is 

 planted. The stem of 

 the vine is introduced 

 through this niche into 

 the house, and a por- 

 tion of the whole front 

 of the house, and of 

 the parapet wall as low 

 down as the root of the 

 vines. The portable 

 part is of cast-iron, 

 about a foot in breadth ; 

 so that when the vines are to be with- 

 drawn from the house, these pieces are 



removed, and the whole vine taken out with 

 the greatest ease and safety. The pieces are 

 then restored to their former places, and 

 remain so until the vines are to be again 

 replaced in the house. 



White's vinery. — This vinery was de- 

 signed and executed by Mr White for his 

 own use in 1 839 ; and, shortly afterwards, 

 one upon the same principle was erected 

 by him for the Marquis of Tweeddale. 

 Both are heated by his patent hot-air 

 stove — (vide section, Hot- Air Stoves.) 

 They are thus described by him in his 

 prospectus: " Fig. 429, plan of the vinery, 

 and fig. 430, a view, with the ends of the 

 house removed in order to show its inter- 

 nal construction, a a is the back wall ; 

 b c are the mouths of cold-air drains, and 

 the dotted lines their continuation to the 

 hot-air stove d ; ee,& few descending steps 

 by which it is supplied from the outside 

 with fuel through an opening in the wall, 

 as shown in the plan. On the same level 

 there is a place, /, for containing coke, as 

 represented by the dotted lines ; g g is a 

 fire-brick casing formed in lengths of 2 feet 

 each, and neatly jointed together — they 

 are open at top, and have movable covers. 

 Into this casing the heated air from the 



