APPENDIX. 



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THE GROUND VINERY. 



A seven-feet length of ground vinery, the end at 5 open, to be joined to another 

 seven-feet length with a closed end, or otherwise. 



a Aperture 4 inches deep, for the egress of hot air. 

 b The open end, to be added to at pleasure, 

 c Ground level. 

 d Bricks. 



6 Interstices between bricks for ventilation. 



The " Curate's Vinery," described in the tenth edi- 

 tion, was contrived by Dr. S. Newington, of Tice- 

 hnrst — " Sigma" — and consisted of a ridge of glass 

 placed over a furrow lined with slates, so that the 

 bunches of grapes were suspended in the furrow, and 

 in warm seasons ripened well. One objection to the 

 furrow was its liability to be filled with water in wet 

 weather, in low situations and heavy soils. I there- 

 fore sought to remedy this, and one day, about the 

 end of June, 1860, I found myself looking into my 

 original " Curate's Yinery," and admiring the vines 

 then in blossom, although those within a few yards of 

 it, growing in the open air, were scarcely in full leaf. 

 I pictured to myself the bunches of grapes suspended 

 from the vines in the warm, moist atmosphere of the 

 trench lined with slates. My thoughts then reverted 

 to my boyish grape-loving days, when, in an old vine- 

 yard planted by my grandfather, I always looked for 

 some ripe grapes about the end of September ; and I 

 vividly remembered that I always found the best and 



