THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
November 1831 . 
PART I.-HORTICULTURE, &c. 
. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
Article I .—Descriptimi of a House for growing Early 
Grapes, S^c. By Mr. .J. Haythorn. 
Gentlemen, 
Having seen your invitation to gardeners, and all others in¬ 
terested in Horticulture, requesting them to communicate their ideas on 
constructing forcing houses; I beg leave to send you the description of a 
house, which I conceive well adapted for forcing early Grapes, and late 
crops of Peaches and Nectarines ;—I consider these to be equally as valu¬ 
able as early crops, and I think may be easily accomplished. 
The house I would propose, should be six or eight feet wide, about 
three feet high in the front, and ten or twelve feet at the back; and 
heated in the usual way, with flues or hot water. The front must be so 
contrived, that the vines on the rafters can be taken entirely out, at plea¬ 
sure. The back must be formed of pillars, (one under every third rafter) 
composed of either wood, stone, or metal, with a sufficient plate and 
.coping on the top. The space betwixt the pillars, should be filled up 
with strong moveable wooden panels, so that at the time the peach-trees 
have done bearing, and the wood is well-ripened, say about the month 
of December, the panels may be moved from the north to the south side 
of the peach trees,—thus exposing them to the action of the weather on 
a northern aspect; beiri" careful however, that the first exposure be in 
mild weather, and should it afterwards be very severe, the pillars and 
coping, would, in a great measure, be a sufficient protection against dri¬ 
ving rains, &:c. 
The vines might be brought into the house, through the front, and 
trained up the rafters a month or so before the peaches were exposed, in 
Von. 1, No. 5. 
