Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . s at others. and pruned so; and bo and so must be the hourly attention,daily practice, and yearly rule. The crop of your cold vinerywUl give you the cold shoulder, unless you heat it; andit will put on airs, unless you air it every day. So the storygoes. The first thing hi does when hi goes hinto my vinery hofhahevening, once said a good gardener to us, hi pulls hoffmy hair. But I should pull off my hair if I did, repliesan equally good one; I lower my sash, or open my ventila-tors in April, and let the air stay on all the year.
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . s at others. and pruned so; and bo and so must be the hourly attention,daily practice, and yearly rule. The crop of your cold vinerywUl give you the cold shoulder, unless you heat it; andit will put on airs, unless you air it every day. So the storygoes. The first thing hi does when hi goes hinto my vinery hofhahevening, once said a good gardener to us, hi pulls hoffmy hair. But I should pull off my hair if I did, repliesan equally good one; I lower my sash, or open my ventila-tors in April, and let the air stay on all the year. It is the fault of novices that they cannot essentials and non-essentials. All these minutematters are well enough if you want superior Grapes; butgood Grapes and plenty of them can be had easily andcheaply; and no matter how small a garden lot may be,one of the first improvements, after laying out the gardenproper, we should recommend to be a cold gi-apery.—(American Gardeners Monthly.) CULTIVATION OF THE MELON. {Continued from page 194.). S ^ 3 2 J O JLff I AMEEiCAN NEW beginner in Grape-growing must keep cool: asin all divisions of the sons of men the newest converts arethe most unreasonable zealots,—he wUl find among Grape-growers those who give him the most trouble are they whohave had the least experience. In one of our last yearsvolumes, our correspondent Phineas Chewce —vinousjuice, we presume, changed fo vinegar—happily hits off thispeculiarity of the neophyte, by supposing him to recommendnot only planting a eat at the roots of the Grapes he wouldhave muskcat, but it must also be planted with its tail tothe north pole. The house must be of such a shape, sucha size, such an angle, and such an aspect. None other willdo at all. The plants must be set so, trained so, pinched so,. Fig. 12. Yig. 12 is a span-roofed house, with a path in the centraand two beds on each side. The house is heated by six four-inch hot-water pipes, two
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