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The common Sweet Water grape furnishes nice fruit for tarts, 
and a very fair preserve may be made of ripe grapes of any 
land, but in the preparation of it the pulp must be pressed 
through a sieve of suitable size to remove the stones, and 
owing to the juiciness of the fruit, it requires plenty of cooking 
to reduce it. As for wine making, we cannot go info that 
subject here, but given plenty of grapes, it is neither a difficult 
nor a costly business to produce a wholesome and palatable 
wine suitable for daily use in the household. 
The best Varieties op Grapes for walls are Esperione, 
Miller s Burgundy, Royal Muscadine. For ground vineries 
Black Hamburgh, Buckland Sweet Water, Foster s Seedling, 
Madresfield Court Muscat. 
Ground Vinery and Protective Beds. — The object of 
combining two systems of cultivation is to economise the 
glass and make it pay interest on its cost the whole year 
round. Mark out a piece of ground 66^ feet long and 36 
feet broad. If the greatest length lies east and west it will 
be better than any other direction, but it does not much 
matter what is its direction provided it lies open to the sun, 
is well drained, and enjoying a little shelter from north-east 
winds. It must not be overhung by trees. Mark out all 
round a 4-feet walk ; perhaps a narrower walk might do, but 
the walk has to serve also as a border for the roots of the 
vines, and there must be a certain amount of wheeling all the 
year round, for manuring the beds, etc. Next mark out 
divisions across the piece 3i feet wide and H feet wide 
alternately. At the end of every alternate bed plant two 
vines ; the other beds are to be reserved for cauliflowers, 
saladings, and other subjects that require protection. 
The next business is to provide the glass frames or 
“Vineries.” Seven-feet lengths will do to begin with, but 
the arrangement is for every vine to have 14 feet of glass 
ultimately, which makes each separate length 28 feet. The 
frames are to be 42 inches wide, to accommodate two vines 
each, and the beds will be the same width throughout, with 
alleys of 18 inches width between. Let us suppose, then, 
that the whole affair is finished. We have in the six com- 
partments marked a, 24 vineries, making a total run of 168 
feet of glass, and as there are two vines in each, the total 
length of bearing rods is 336 feet. Let us suppose the vines 
to produce one bunch to every foot run, and if the bunches 
