COLD VINERIES. 
The rapid introduction of cold vineries, has, of late 
years, formed quite an era in the cultivation of exotic 
grapes. Many years ago, a great de a l of money, and a 
great deal of labor were expended 
in attempts to cultivate them in 
open air, all of which were gene- 
rally repaid with a great deal of 
vexation at the total failure 
caused by mildew. Cold vineries, 
requiring incomparably less at- 
tent ion than vineries heated by 
fire, and ripening the fruit some 
weeks earlier than by open air 
culture, and giving fine delicious 
crops with much certainty, have 
saved the foreign sorts from rejec¬ 
tion. 
The annexed figure represents 
a very neat and tasteful cold 
grape-house, erected by H. In- 
gersoll, near Philadelphia. It is 
18 feet by 48 1-2 feet, and 14 feet 
high; was built of the best mate¬ 
rials, by mechanics at city prices, 
and cost $500. 
The second engraving exhibits 
the interior of a larger grapery, 
made on the same plan, by P. S. 
Van Rensselaer, at Clinton 
Point, on the Hudson. This being about twice as long 
as the preceding, with the same width and height, must 
have cost about one thousand dollars. 
are set into the ground about six feet apart. These 
posts rise seven feet above the surface at the rear (A), 
and two feet three inches at the front (B.) They are 
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sheathed or weather-boarded in the common way, on 
the outside of the posts,* along the back and front—the 
the two ends being also boarded up—with a door in each 
To such as may not wish to expend so much, the fol¬ 
lowing exceedingly cheap plan is recommended, being 
less than half the cost of ordinary green-houses. It is 
copied in substance from the Hot liculturist , and is the 
mode adopted for cheap structures by Rivers, the ce¬ 
lebrated nurseryman of Sawbridgeworth, England. 
“ In fig. 1 (see next page,) we give a sketch of a sec¬ 
tion of one of these cheap structures, from which any 
of our readers may construct a similar house. 
The frame of this building is wholly of wood. Posts 
or in both ends—opposite the sunken walk (C). This 
walk is sunken, partly to economise cost, and is needed 
to raise the back and front high enough to walk under 
the roof, and partly to bring the plants as near the glass 
as possible—a great desideratum in all plant culture. 
So far, it will be seen that this structure costs little 
* Tf for a vinery or a house to be used in summer, this would be 
sufficient; if for a green-house, ihen the posts should be boarded up 
both si 'es, and the space-wilhin filled-in with tan, pounded clay, or 
any th-ng usually employed for this purpose. 
