50 THE FORCING GARDEN. 
except that Plums bear on the old wood and Peaches 
on the young wood, 2.e. on the wood made the preced- 
ing year—will be a good and abundant crop on the back 
wall, and also from the pot-plants. 
I may venture to make a calculation with respect 
to the results, for the satisfaction of those who may be 
somewhat diffident as to whether it would pay to erect 
such a house merely for Plum growing. In the first 
place, the actual cost of such a house may be given at 
201., not more. Then there are the twenty cordon 
Plums at 1s. 6d. each = 30s.; then sixty dwarf bush 
Plums for potting at 1s. 6d. = 41. 10s. ; and sixty eleven- 
inch pots at 3s. 6d. per dozen = 17s. 6d.; one load 
of maiden Joam and rotten manure, 5s.; total cost, 
271. 2s. 6d. The first year, nothing. The second year, 
half a crop, say two dozen fruit from each tree at 2s. 
per dozen, that would be, from eighty trees, 160 dozen 
fruit, which, at 2s. per dozen supposing them to be 
Greengages = 16/. The third season, three dozen or 
more may be had from each tree, till at last four or five 
dozen fruit may be had in this way. Thus it will be 
seen that from such a house full 40/. worth of fruit 
may be had eventually, which cost originally, with its 
contents, but 277. 2s. 6d. AndI do not overrate the 
thing; for something more may be made from this 
house besides the Plums every season. 
All the Plums in pots may be removed from the 
house as soon as the fruit is set and swelled off a little 
and the danger of frosty nights is over, say by the 
middle of June. They can then be moved from the 
house and set upon a good border of soil where they 
ean get all the summer sun, and then the fruit will 
ripen equally as well as in the house, the floor of which 
