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Definition of Graperies
1. grapery [n] - See also: grapery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graperies
Literary usage of Graperies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1857)
"The two graperies are forty-eight by twenty-four, span roi f, moderate pitch,
with twenty-four vines in each, and about twelve different varieties of grape, ..."
2. Papers on Horticultural and Kindred Subjects by William Saunders, United States Dept. of Agriculture (1891)
"INSIDE BORDERS FOR Graperies. It has been strenuously advocated that the soil in
which foreign grapes are grown should be wholly under the glass, ..."
3. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"For early forcing, or perhaps in all Graperies where artificial heat is used,
the "lean to," as it is called, is preferable facing south or southeast, ..."
4. Papers on Hortcultural and Kindred Subjects by William Saunders, United States Dept. of Agriculture (1891)
"INSIDE BORDERS FOR Graperies. It has been strenuously advocated that the soil in
which foreign grapes are grown should be wholly under the glass, ..."
5. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists by Peter Henderson (1911)
"I will simply say that for early forcing, or perhaps in all graperies where
artificial beat ... While for cold graperies, or those not heated artificially, ..."
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