grapery

"This was the grapery," he said, pointing to a big stone wall that had held trellises for vines.

In the 19th century and perhaps before then, the adaptability of Long Island soil to grapery was already well recognized.

The Grapery is an arboretum though which wind a series of pathway, each opening to vistas across the surrounding Slieve Bloom Mountains or towards the house.

In its heyday, the Gould greenhouse, with its 26-foot-wide central palm court and its 14 separate plant rooms, required a full-time staff of 16 to tend its grapery and its mixed-planter houses, its roses and its orchids and palms, the last category including 242 varieties.