Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 7 Position of Houses 17 Forms of Houses 19 Heating by Flues 22 Heating by Steam 22 Heating by Tanks 27 Heating by Hot Water Pipes 33 Construction, &c. 35 Hot Beds 39 Cold Pit 44 Propagating Houses 46 Design No. 1. Propagating House 54 Design No. 2. Propagating House 57 Design No. 3. Propagating House 61 Design No. 4. Grapery and Forcing House 64 Design No. 5. Green-House 68 Design No. 6. Green-House and Grapery 70 Design No. 7. Cold Grapery 73 Design No. 8. Polyprosopic Roof 77 Design No. 9. Green-House 81 Design No. 10. Cold Grapery 85 Design No. 11. Plant-House 90 Design No. 12. Cold Graperies for City Lots 94 Design No. 13. Grapery 98 Design No. 14. Hot Grapery 102 Design No. 15. Extensive range of Horticultural Buildings 105 Design No. 16. Green-House 111 Design No. 17. "Lean-to" Grapery 115 Design No. 18. Green-House 119 Design No. 19. Large Range of Horticultural Buildings 123 Design No. 20. Green-House and Grapery combined 127 Orchard Houses 131 WOODWARD'S Graperies and Horticultural Buildings. INTRODUCTION. It is less than twenty-five years since the first cold Grapery was erected on the Hudson. Since the success of the culture of the delicious varieties of the exotic Grape has been demonstrated, the number of graperies has annually increased, and during the last ten years in a very rapid ratio, until they have become recognized as possible and desirable, among those even whose circumstances are moderate and limited. The newly-awakened interest in this branch of culture is manifested in the number and variety of books and other publications on this subject, the space devoted to it in the agricultural and horticultural journals, and especially in the increased number of graperies and vineyards which have been erected and planted in the last decade. There seems to be a general consciousness of the fact that, in the struggle for wealth and the greed for wide possessions, as well as in the inherent difficulties of our situation—thrown as we have been upon a new and vast continent—we have too long neglected the culture of the Vine, one of the most ancient and useful arts of life; an art which has, in all ages, been the fruitful source of comfort and luxury, of health and…