grapery
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Our next illustration is of a green-house and grapery combined, seventy feet in length by twenty feet wide.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)
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 Reed, Helen Leah
At the sides of B. are beds for propagating plants, forcing vegetables, &c., furnished with bottom heat from brick tanks which extend entirely around the house and heat the grapery part as well.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)
The pipes being also used to heat a grapery near by on a higher level, it was necessary to carry them thus.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)
Light, heat, moisture and good ventilation are all required in the grapery.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
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
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
The graperies were gone, and in their stead nourished rose-houses,—visiting the interior of which seemed fairly to transport one into the famous "Vale of Cashmere."
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various
Training, Chautauqua method, 125. classification of methods, 125. in eastern America, 123. fan-method, 131. in graperies, 198.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
For span-roofed Green-houses the rule is not so arbitrary, the glass not being lined with foliage, as in the case of graperies, the diffusion of light would not be materially obstructed.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)
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