grapery
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Though called a grapery, vines of many different kinds twined over the trellis-work, while the grapevines were chiefly over an arbor at the end.
From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed
A good proportion for a grapery or conservatory, is twenty feet in width by fifty feet in length.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
Crossing the road-way, we enter the cold grapery.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
Towards the end of the season, all parts of the plant become harder in texture and the grapery may then be more generously aired.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
The border in a modern grapery now occupies all of the ground surface inside the house and may extend several feet outside the house.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
My eyes were half closed, the perfume from the graperies filled the room, and had a pleasant effect upon my senses, and thus I began to forget where I was and what was about me.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
It has a small pond on one side, and eight acres of land, laid out in gardens, walks and lawns, with extensive greenhouses and graperies.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Perhaps a dozen more sorts might be named worthy of trial in American graperies, but the list given covers the needs of commercial establishments and will meet the wants of most amateur growers.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
She drew upon her accumulation of money that had thriven long in a private bank, and expended it in laying out new lawns, planting new trees, building new stables, erecting tasteful graperies and kiosks.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 by Various
The carpenters went away from the kiosks, the masons from the face-walls, the smiths from the graperies, the gardeners from the lawns, and everything came to a stand-still.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 by Various
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