December L6, l'.ut 



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s57 



Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass 



KIW JERSEY ORANG1 9 



Tin' accompany- 

 ing pirlll!', - L r i\'' 



only a faint 

 i)!' the magnifi- 

 eence and beauty 

 i n orange 

 house :n I 

 of year, the over- 

 | i ; con- 

 trasting so well 

 with the golden 

 Eruil a- n hangs 

 in greal clusters. 

 The pictures were 

 taken two weeks 



ago in the orangerie at Duke's 

 Park. This house measuring '.'•"> by 

 75 feel miu r !ii be i rmed the 



California of New Jersey. The 

 older trees are planted out in bor- 

 ders and the intervening spaces 

 taken up with trees in square tubs 

 — one of which we illustrate — 

 which are easily transferred to 

 wherever needed for house decora- 

 tions. The cluster — and there 

 are many such through the house — 

 is growing on one of the trees 

 planted out. Owing to the quan- 

 tity of fruit which keeps the 



branches low, it has I n ditVu-ult 



to show the whole crop of one tree 

 in a small picture. For a private 

 place which is seeking novelty and 

 a picturesque house there is noth- 

 ing to heat an orangerie. The 

 moderate temperature makes it an 

 ideal spot at all times of the year. 

 The fragrance of the flowers needs no commendation and 

 as soon as these pass over there is the crop of wee small 

 oranges to develop into the golden harvest of the late 

 fall and winter, which makes a pleasing feast for the 

 eyes as well as the mouth, right over Christmas. 



POSITION OF FRUIT HOUSES AND THEIR VENTILATORS 



The position and construction of fruit houses plays 

 no small part in the quality of results obtained from the 

 trees. During recent years a great change has been 

 made in constructing a peach house. Now, we find 

 trees growing on a trellis stretched across the house in- 

 stead of in the old way of running on an overhead trellis 

 a short distance from the glass. This method is a \ast 

 improvement on its predecessor, inasmuch as more fruit 

 can be gathered from a house, the trees are more easily 

 kept clean, — being more accessible with the hose, — the 

 borders feel the heat of the sun and the air can pass in 

 and around the trees more freely. It will be readily 

 seen that a house such as the foregoing must run from 

 east to west, with the trellis across it at right an 

 For an early house a lean-to has much to recommend it ; 



in the first place it ie sheltered from the north wind, sec- 

 ondly it gets all the miii possible during the lirst months 

 of the yeai ential point. Trees planted the re- Libqar 



ither a little until the sun NEW voi 

 gets high. Sim at see will suil figs. Vineries can BoTamo 

 be buill "ii either course, hut iJ i-t to wesl a q ai<0 



lean-to or 8 , span is only possible. 



A far more imposing house is the even-span roof. 

 Nothing look- the eyi than a good crop of 



pan-roof house where yon 

 walk along them. It is essential that this 



range run from - an even 



a -mi. \ .in ilation will ! □ bo . top 



and bottom and, li i ng the trying spring month- with 

 warm sunshine and cold winds, the a - of hav- 



ing the air ju-t where ou want it will be demonstrated. 

 No fruit house should ho built without bottom venti- 

 lation. Some plant houses do not require Bide air. hut 

 with fruit ho i re is a \a-i 



rence. In the fust place all 

 fruit needs as much fresh air as it 

 can u'et during the hoi weather; 

 i late i rops are swelling, with 

 no side air huniing and BCalding 

 will lie easier; aJ fruit is 



finished and the bouses i 1 to be 



kepi a- i ool a- post »u cannot 



bring a house down to oul 

 temperature u ithout Bide air. Again, 

 houses u hieh you are desirous 

 of starl ing a- soon a- possible do not 



h the firsl lighi frosts, 

 sequentlj the trees are kepi ^ow- 

 ing longer, and lastly very late 

 houses — vineries to have fruit hang- 

 ing at Christmas — are unduly 

 ed up with t he spring sun be- 

 fore they are wanted to start and 

 'ii cannot keep the vines dormant 

 a- long a- would be possible with 



side air. All 

 tin- L, r <>e- to -how 

 the ad\antage of 

 houses having 

 side-air over 

 those minus it. 

 1 do not wish to 

 say it is impos- 

 sible to grow 

 fruit in 



without -ide air, 

 hut 1 do Bay it 

 i- impractical 

 build houses express!) for growing frail without it. 



M 'KING \ 1 ■ I : V ■ It BORDER 



Making a peach border differs little from making a 

 I'order. The root confinement is of equal impor- 

 tance, as a peach tree if left to itself will make a i 

 tity of strong worthless wood year after year. It is 

 seldom we find flower buds on this strong wood; on the 

 contrary it is on the weaker wood where the flower buds 

 ion of the house and trellis must 



