The Garden Under Glass

24 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS ate and have first consideration, the house cannot be anything but eminently practical and useful. Gårdeners often look askance at such combinations, preaching always the doctrine that grapes must have the mono-poly of a house—a counsel of perfection which undoubtedly makes for most suc-cessful grape culture but is decidedly un-economical. I have seldom seen this practised and hope never to practise it myself. Diagram 12.—Vinery: 1. Showing position of rod, and (a) a small border for a fig-tree. 2. Peach house, showing (a) front trellis on which to train trees and (£) trellis on back wall. A Peach House Seldom indeed are peaches and vines grown in the same house, though figs will associate with either. The experi- ment would not be likely to prove successful and I shall not advise it. If a small house be given over to peaches and nectarines they may be grown along the front and also on the back wall, but the front trellis will need to be curved to admit as much light as possible to the trees at the back. Here again tomatoes and pot strawberries may be grown, and there might also be a movable staging for plants.