AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 425 
Nectarine—continued. 
nent positions wh 
for (a) three Zin. and (b) two 4in. Hot-w: 
tection, and all the best are well worthy of it. 
of a steep pitch, and either carried down low at 
Position for four 3in. Hot-water Pipes. 
to prepare them elsewhere, and transplant into perma- 
2 ey are nearly or quite ready for 
fruit-bearing. It will be necessary to prepare a border 
inside the house—at least, for those intended to be 
forced; the roots are also far more under control when 
thus restricted at all seasons. Efficient drainage must 
be provided, and a depth of about 2kft. of soil is recom- 
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Fic. 658. SECTION oF LEAN-TO PEACH-HOUSE, showing Position 
ater Pipes. 
mended. This should be a prepared compost of fairly 
good loam, some crushed šin. bones, and plenty of 
mortar rubbish, well intermixed. The borders should 
never be allowed to get dry, but, of course, more water 
will be required at different seasons, according to the 
A 
house in which forcing is to be conducted is best con- 
structed as a lean-to, and the roof should preferably 
PEACH AND NECTARINE TREES ON WALLS, showing (a) 
Nectarine continued. 
if possible, the roof-sashes made movable, in order that 
the trees may be subjected to full exposure each year 
after their fruits are gathered. Fan-trained trees, on 
dwarf, and also on tall, “rider” stocks, are the shapes 
most favoured for indoor culture. Cordons are well 
suited for planting in houses intended mid-season 
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and late supplies, as an opportunity is thus given 
including many fine i 
excellent fruits are also invariably obtained 
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this system of training. Sorts adapted for 
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proved. Elruge is, ps, the best of all N 
for early forcing; it seldom fails in producing a crop, if 
proper treatment is given. Supposing a good tree of 
this, and another of an Early Grosse M Peach, 
houses, in pots, This 
style of training is, however, not much favoured by culti- 
vators, and is not here recommended, on account of such 
a number of fruits being shaded with foliage, and con- 
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in comparison with others exposed to sun and air 
during the whole of the time they are swelling and 
ripening. 
The habit assumed by trees bearing stone-fruits — 
of which the Nectarine and Peach are important ex- 
amples— may be briefly referred to, it is by no 
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