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Vourable, the glaffes flioukl be raifcd to admit frefh 

 air to the plants •, for if they are too much drawn, 

 (efpccially when they begin ro fiower) they will not 



{')roduce much fruit. If the feafon fiiouki continue 

 ong cold, and the heat of the beds Hiould decline, it 

 •will be proper to lay fome frcfli hot dung round the 

 fides of the beds to renew their hear, being always 

 careful not to make them too hot, for that will fcorch 

 their roots, and prevent their fruiting. If the plants 

 which are planted in thefe beds are llrong, and in a 

 good condition for bearing, and care be taken in 



too rampant for this "purpofe. 

 But to return to the fubjeft of hot Walls -, what I have 

 here inferted "concerning the forcing of fruits, has 

 been only to obtain thefe fruits earlier in the feafon, 

 than they would naturally ripen againfl common 

 Walls. But in fome parts of England, where moft 

 of our good kinds of fruit feldom ripen, it might be 

 very well worth while to build fome of thefe Walls, 

 to obtain good fruit from the belt kinds, of Peaches, 

 Plums, &c. efpccially in fuch places where fuel is 

 plenty, becaufe there the cxpence will not be great 

 after the iirft buildino; of the Walls'. 'For I would not 

 propofe to have coverings of glafs, excepting for a 

 fmall proportion of the Walls ; the reft may have frames 

 of canvas, or oiled paper, to ihut over them, in the 

 fame manner as the glaffes are contrived, which will fuc- 

 ceed very well where proper care is taken ; for as 

 there will not be occafion to cover thefe trees until 

 the beginning of March, at which time alfo the fires 

 muft be made, fo before the trees areln'flowejr, the 

 weather may be frequently warm enough to open the 

 covers to admit fun arid air to the trees in 'the middle 

 , of the day; for if thefe covers are kept too clofely 

 ■ IKut, \he ftioQts of the trees will draw very weak, and 

 their leaves vy ill turn pate Tor" want' of light and aih 

 And as the defign of thefe* contrivances is 'drily to 

 bring the trees into flowrer' three, ^ or at moft four 

 weeks earlier, than they v/ould naturally come againft 

 common Wally, there will be no neceffity of making 

 very large fires, or keeping the covers too clofely over 

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moft of the fruit to fall off; efpccially if cold ni^^hts 

 ftiould follow. 



By this method gentlemen may be fupplicd with moft 

 ot the beft kinds of fruit in the nortl;crn parts of 

 England, where without fome fuch care, they cannot 

 expeft much good fruit in their gardens. And as 

 coal is in great plenty in thofc places, the cxpence 

 will be very little ; therefore I am furprifed that molt 

 of the gentlemen who live in the north, do not put 

 this method in praftice. That there are fome few of 

 thefe Walls buik in the north is well known, burthen 

 they are chiefly defigned to produce a little earlv 

 fruit, more for curiofity'than any real ufe -, and thefe 



tranfplanting of them to preferve good balls of earth 

 to their roots, as alfo to keep a due temperature of 



warmth in the beds, they will produce ripe fruit by Walls are, for the moft part, lb ill contrived, that 



the end of April, or the beginningof May, in plenty •, four times the fuel is expended, as will be rcquifue 



and will continue bearing, until fome of thofe in the when the Walls are built after the manner here di- 



open air come in to fucceed them. . • refted ; and where the heat is not pretty equally dif- 



The beft kinds of Strawberries to plant for forcing, tributed through every part of the Wall, fome of tiie 



are the Scarlet and Alpine, for the Hautboys grow trees will have too much heat, while otliers will have 



little benefit from the fires. 



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There are'fomeperfons Who build their hot Walls in 

 fuch a manner, as to have the greateft heat under the 

 border, near the roots of the trees, fuppofino- there 

 is a . neceffity for heat to the roots, as well as the 

 brandies"; but this is agreat miftake, for the fires 

 muft greatly injure the roots of the trees, by dry in o* 

 up the mbiftitre of the earth, as alfo in fcorching the 

 tender fibres' of thole "roots which lie near them; 

 therefore this pradtice iliould not be continued, for it 

 is much the better method to elevate the firft flue 

 nine inches or a foot above the level of the border, 

 according as the ground is dry or wet, than to place 

 it the leaft below ground, which will only dry the 

 earth, ai;id not warm the air about the trees, which is 

 the only ufe of artificial heat j for it is very common- 

 ly pradifed to draw a branch of a Vine, or other 

 fruit-tree,^ 1^^^ a ftove, which branch will produce 

 its fruit as early *as if the whole tree had been forced ; 

 when,' at tlie Tame time,' all the other branches of the 

 fame tree, which are expofeS to the open air* will 

 not be the leaft forwarded, though they are all nourifti- 

 edby the fame root -'which is a plain proof, that 

 there is no" neceffity for adding any warmth to the 

 f'roots of fruit-trees, to have their fruit earlier or better 



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Inftead of canvas for thefe covers, oiled papers may 

 be tjfed, which ffiould, be done in the manner diredt- 



Walls which have been buik 

 for forcing of fruit, with one continued chafm from' 

 their bottoms to the top, fo' that they have been like 

 double Walls, with places atpropcr-diftarices to make 

 the fires j but thefe can be of httle ufe, for if the Walls 

 are open at their tops to let out the fiiioke; the heat 

 will alfo efcape with it ; becaufe, if thefeoke be not 



ed for raifing of Melons, by pafting^as many ffieets of . led'about three or four times in flues in order to warm 

 paper together, as will fit the frames on which they the bricks,' the heat will pafs off at the top, without 



are to be fixed; and')vhen\the'paftd is'dry, the paper 

 fri - ■• ' i^^e fjj{^^'j^gi^ in^Q the* frames, and then the oil 



doing much fervice to the trees. " 



Where the Walls 



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rubl5ed' over on tKe butlide with a brufliJ .which will 



fruit, which are defif^ned to ripen them in perfedion 



foak through the paper, and when the paper is dry, if the autianins fliould' prove cold, or very wet, before 



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the covers may be ufed. T^his paper 'will laft very 

 well one feafon, and the expence of repairing it will 

 not be very great ; wherefore thefe are to be prefer- 

 red to the canvas, becaufe air fofts of plants -will 



'thrive niuch better under them, than they^willunder 

 canvas,* or any'dfhfef clofe covering, which Vvi'll not 

 'adrfiit the fays of the light fo well thriSifgh to theplants. 

 The frames defigned for either canvas or paper may 

 be made much (lighter than thofe'for glafs, becaufe 

 thefe being very light, will not require fo much 

 ftrength t6 fupport them -, and if thefe are well paint- 

 ed, and every year,, when their ufe i^ over, carried 



' .iptQ fhelter, they will laft a long time, for they will 

 not be wanted abroad longer than three months, viz. 

 from the beginning of March to the end of May ; for 

 after this time the fruit will not require any covering, 

 the tree^ being then full of leaves, and , the young 

 Ihoots will by that time have made fuch progrefs, as to 

 become a good defence for the fruit; but thefe covers 

 Ihould not be too fuddenly taken away, but by de- 

 grees the trees Ihould be inured to the open air, other- 

 wife the change will be too great,' and may occafion 



the. fruit are ripe, it will be proper to put the covers 

 over the trees', and if there are fome flow fires made 

 to dry off" the damps, it will be of great ufe to pre- 

 ^ vent the fruit fron:i growing mouldy, and to haften 

 their ripehihe; Ijut ^yhen this is praftifed, the covers 

 fhould be t^en'off, whenever the weather will ad- 

 mit of it,*t*hat the fruit may enjoy the benefit of the 

 free air, without which they "will be irifipjd or ill-tafted. 

 Although in the ^former diresflions for forcing trees" 

 in order to have early fruit, I haveadvifed, that fuch 

 trees ftiould have one or two years reft in order to re- 

 cover vigour, yet that is not to be linderftood of thefe 

 trees, which are only defigned to be brought forv/ard 

 enough to produce their fruit inperfedion ; for'as the 

 .fires are not defigned to be made till t!ic beginning of 

 March, the trees will not be weakened thereby, be- 

 caufe they will be inured to the open air long before 

 their fruit is npe, and will have time to ripen their 

 Ihoots, and form their buds for the next year's bear- 

 ing; therefore thefe trees may be thus forced tvcry 

 year, without doing them qiuch injury, provided 

 '■they are carefully managed. ' ■ ' ' 



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