. The book of the garden. Gardening. VINERIES. 325 Mr Spencer observes, that had he " had the entire building of the house in the first place," he would " have preferred building the back wall sufficiently high to have left room for the back ventila- tors to have opened above the wall-plate, and immediately under the coping, to remedy the evil, in the present case, of a direct current of cold air passing ; He has "attached to the north side a frame which prevents the air entering the house directly from the ;— Jour, of Hort. Soc. Reference to secti
. The book of the garden. Gardening. VINERIES. 325 Mr Spencer observes, that had he " had the entire building of the house in the first place," he would " have preferred building the back wall sufficiently high to have left room for the back ventila- tors to have opened above the wall-plate, and immediately under the coping, to remedy the evil, in the present case, of a direct current of cold air passing ; He has "attached to the north side a frame which prevents the air entering the house directly from the ;— Jour, of Hort. Soc. Reference to section and ground-plan : a back wall of house ; b floor of house ; c supports to front plate; d large air- drain running parallel with the house; e air-drains entering from behind; / open chamber for hot-water pipes or flue; g ven- tilators in back wall; h drains for admit- ting external air to d; i air-drains com- municating with d, and opening into/; h border for vines ; 11 hot-water pipes; m sliding valves for regulating admission of air through drain e; n valves for ad- mitting air from main drain d. Subterranean chambering vine borders at Welbeck.—In the gardens of the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck, has been exemplified a mode of rendering the bottoms of vine borders dry by chambering them under- neath, and their surfaces dry by covering them with rafters and glass sashes. Glass is now cheap, and a very inferior quality will do as well for this purpose as any other ; nay, even a covering of common roof-tiles, such as has been used in other places, will answer the same end, except- ing in so far as the transmission of light is concerned. That the bottoms of vine borders, as well as their tops, should be kept free from excess of damp, is admitted by all; but it seems questionable whether all this expense should be incurred in such a case as that of Welbeck, where the annual fall of rain does not exceed that of several of the adjoining counties;-— because, though the garden
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