62 THE FORCING GARDEN. 
The house illustrated below will be found an excel- 
lent one for pot-Gooseberries, and if there is a wall nine 
or ten feet high, the expense of building such a house 
will be comparatively small. The back wall can be 
appropriated either for Plums trained obliquely, or for 
Red Currants, where they will bear early and abundantly. 
The Red or White Currant can be trained in exactly the 
same manner as the Plum or Cherry on the cordon 
plan. The leaders will remain the same, and will last 
for years, but all the young growth made the last 
Fic. 18.—END SECTION OF A LEAN-TO HOUSE FOR CORDON PLUMS, OR RED CUR 
RANTS, ON THE BACK WALL; AND THREE ROWS OF POT-GOOSEBERRIES. 
Back wall, ten feet high ; front, two feet; eight feet wide. 
Reference.—A, the wall, ten feet high; B, the top ventilator, one foot wide all 
along the house, to open and shut by rack gearing; c, the bottom opening, one 
foot wide, all along the front of house ; d, three rows of pot-gooseberry trees. 
season must be cut off close to the spur annually, 
except such young wood as is required for the filling 
up of vacant places. (See the ‘Tree Pruner.’) Green- 
gages will do well in this house if planted two feet 
apart and trained on the ‘ oblique cordon plan.’ 
The above house is set out in the following propor- 
tions :—ten feet high at the back, eight feet wide, and of 
any desired length. The cost of such a structure may 
