grapery
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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 George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
It is possible to build a small grapery as a lean-to out of hot-house sash.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
The governor has a grapery, and presented us with some fine bunches of grapes.
From Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California by Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson
Ventilating the grapery is another important detail of the season's work.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
The vines in the grapery must be watered with considerable care.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
To celebrate the occasion he gave us a little dinner, and invested heavily in nectarines, strawberries and peaches from the graperies.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
Some of our numerous designs for graperies, both of the curvilinear and straight roofed form, would, with slight alteration in adding to the means of ventilation, be well adapted to this purpose.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
His fine graperies made such a vivid impression upon my husband that his description of them almost enabled me to see the luscious fruit itself before me.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur
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
We have no doubt that many other places, now deemed useless, might be converted into good graperies at an expense that the results would fully warrant.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
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