THE PEACH HOUSE. 39 
feet apart. These cordon trees are the best class of 
wall tree for Peach, Nectarine, and Apricot cultivation 
as well as for Plums. My reason for saying so is two- 
fold: first of all, a wall can be covered with these 
much sooner than by any other kind of tree; and 
secondly, these trees can be easily lifted once a year 
to check the over-luxuriant growth which Peaches 
are so much liable to when in good ground and 
while they are young. Thirdly, more fruit can be had 
from a given space than by any other class of tree. 
In addition to these trees on the back wall, one 
row of dwarf pot Plums or Greengages may be set in a 
line three feet from the wall about two feet apart in the 
line, that will allow for twenty trees; and in front of 
these, three rows of pot Strawberries, forty pots in each 
row equal to 120 pots. 
The Plums can all be removed from the house as soon 
as the fruit is set and placed outside toripen. The fruit 
would be set about May, or by the beginning of June, 
so that no shading to hurt the Peaches could occur, 
and the whole of the Strawberries would be ripe by 
that time, so that all these might likewise be removed. 
Now there will be nothing in this house but the 
Peaches, which must have air admitted night and day, 
above and below, from the end of June until the fruit 
is ripe. The probable result of all this will be a 
remunerative one. 
I may now venture to give some idea of what will 
be the effect of the careful management of such a 
house. Twenty Peach trees planted at the back will 
in the course of two years from the planting, if well 
managed, give two dozen good fruit each, which at, 
say, 6s. per dozen = 12/.; 120 pots of Strawberries, 
