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appearance, from the absence of any timber in its construction, and from the orna¬ 
mental iron bays (on which hardy grapes are grown), at intervals of 22 ft. in the 
inside. All the ironwork in the interior is painted of a light sky-blue tint, and 
the effect is very pleasing. The walk inside is a stone pavement laid on walls 
Front Elevation of Fleming’s Corridor Vinery. 
of brick-on-edge, so that the roots of the fruit-trees may run between them. 
The back wall is v planted with peaches, nectarines, &c., which always yield good 
crops, but the range is useful for many other purposes, besides also furnishing a pro¬ 
menade in bad weather. In the front an iron grating 2 ft. wide covers two rows of 
4-in. pipe, and here is placed a long row of 300 fruit- 
trees in pots. Bedding plants in immense quantities 
can be placed between the pots in April and May, 
to be hardened off for planting out in June. In the 
winter months a succession of fine succulent lettuces, 
and endive, and chicory can be had, the endive being 
lifted with balls of earth, and put into covered boxes 
in the mushroom-house, where it becomes sufficiently 
blanched in three or four days, while a slight cover¬ 
ing of hay preserves the lettuces from severe frosts, 
should the hot-water pipes not be in use. 
The corridor style of house was originated at 
Trentham, by Mr. Fleming. That represented in the 
accompanying figures is a modification of it, erected by 
Mr. Fleming, of Cliveden. It is 3 ft. wider than the 
Trentham houses, and has a ventilator at the top which keeps the ridge in a 
proper span. These houses were originally intended for stone fruits, but have been 
used with equal success for Vines. The section represents one of the houses at 
Cliveden. The Vines are planted under the plate a, and trained up the front 
