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SHAPE AND SIZE OF VINEHY. 



the increase of wealth., but chiefly in consequence of the 

 duty being off glass, so that now a vinery has become a 

 necessary adjunct to every villa residence, and is no 

 longer confined to the walled-in gardens of the great of 

 the land. And as these pages are principally intended 

 for the guidance of the proprietors of the former, who 

 are not supposed to employ scientific gardeners, I shall 

 endeavour to make myself as plain and easily under- 

 stood as possible; and the directions I purpose giving 

 will be founded chiefly on my own practice, from which 

 I will also draw any illustrations I may think necessary 

 as I proceed. 



SHAPE AND SIZE OF VINERY. 



These may be as various as the tastes and means of 

 their proprietors, and all produce good grapes; at the 

 same time, there are forms and sizes which both philo- 

 sophical deduction and experience have proved to be 

 the best for given purposes. When one of these is the 

 production of early grapes, there is no form of vinery 

 so suitable as what is known as a "lean-to," with a 

 due southern aspect, of which fig. 1 is a section ; the 

 general construction and heating of which will be re- 

 ferred to under those heads. 



Where the wish is to have late grapes — by which I 

 mean grapes ripe in the end of August, to hang till 

 February or March — the span-roofed form is the best 

 and most economical, and should be placed with one 

 end to the south and the other to the north. Fig. 2 is 

 a section of the most elegant design of this description 

 of vinery, though, from the nature of the top ventila- 

 tion, it is much more expensive than fig. 3, which, for 

 practical purposes, is equally good, the only difference 



