Four feet from the sides of the vinery ladder walks should be laid down the whole length of it, except the end border and cross walks, connecting these at convenient distances. These walks may be made of scantling with strips of 1 1/2 inch stuff, sawed 4 inches wide and nailed on at 3/4 inch intervals; this admits air and sufficient light for the roots, and prevents the treading down of the border. These walks should be about 3 feet wide, and I trust I shall not be considered extravagant when I say, that I consider such a walk in a neat, well ventilated, solar warmed sanctuary, free from the chill of vernal and autumnal winds, worth to any person of sedentary occupation the whole cost of the structure, if not a single cluster of grapes should ever be grown in it. A friend of mine, on going to Congress some years ago, threw away his cigars, because, as he said, his boarding-house was so neat in all its departments that he could not bear to desecrate them, and that a habit, so exclusive in its viciousness, had better be relinquished.

Commending the conclusion he arrived at as worthy of universal adoption, I have only to add, that if a man will smoke after dinner, he will find his grapery a very good place for the indulgence.