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half or full standards, ranging also from the back 

 to the front, or entirely for standards, cspeeially 

 those of cherries. 



Where it is intended to have a narrow 

 frame for only a row of trained trees behind, 

 tlie width of from four to five or six feet is suf- 

 ficient, having the back or main v. all formed of 

 brick or stone, as just observed, eight or ten feet 

 liigh, with several flues witliin-side, returned 

 over each other, running the whole length of the 

 wall ; in the front must be a low wall a foot high, 

 on which to lay a plate of timber, and from 

 which are ranged glass frames or lights in one 

 continued slojie to the top of the back wall, there 

 received into proper frame-work ; but for the 

 greater convenience, the lights may be in two 

 tiers or ranges, an under and upper tier, the up- 

 per range made to slide up and down over the 

 others, but so that all the glass-work can be 

 moved away occasionally, to admit the full air 

 to the trees after the work of forcing is over : 

 ihe whole bottom-space within the frame should 

 be of good loamy earth, or any good garden 

 mould, two spades deep, which should be dug 

 or trenched in the common way ; then a range 

 of trees planted behind, towards the wall, two 

 or three yards asunder, erecting a trellis behind 

 tI)cm,upon %\ hich to train the branches as against 

 a wall or espalier. Other inferior plants may 

 likewise be set in the border or in pots, in front 

 of the trees. 



In forcing-frames of this construction, from 

 forty or fifty feet long may be sufficient; but if 

 longer, two furnaces for fires are necessary. See 

 Hot-House. 



Different sorts of frames of this nature may 

 be seen in the plates on Forcing-Frames, 

 Hot-Houses, Sec. 



In the first sort of forcing-frame, various kinds 

 of fruits may be produced both of the dwarf 

 fruit-tree and other kinds, as well as diflerent 

 sorts of vegetables and plants of the flowery 

 and other kinds. 



Frames of this sort may have such dimensions 

 as to have substantial hot- beds prepared within 

 them, for the purpose of receiving many different 

 sorts of potted plants. 



And in the second sort of frame, from the 

 hc.at being more regular and lasting, a still greater 

 variety of the finer sorts of fruits, and the more 

 tender flowers and other vegetable productions 

 mav be produced, not only long before they 

 could be raised in any other way, but with much 

 irreater case and convenience, as well as with 

 iireater certainty. 



The last kind of forcing-frame is employed 

 in furnisning many of the finer sorts of fruits, 

 that reepirc higher degrees of lieat to procure 



them in the utmost perfection, such as pine- 

 apples, grapes, apricots, peaches, nectarines, 

 and various others, as well as many tender sorts 

 of vegetables, and numerous plants of the curiouj 

 flower and other kinds. 



FORCING-GROUND, theportionof ground 

 in a garden that is destined to the purpose of 

 forcing or raising vegetable productions by means 

 of artificial heat. Grounds of this sort should 

 alwa'.s be detached from the garden, and situ- 

 ated as near to the stable as the nature of the 

 land will admit, in order that dung may be 

 conveyed to them with as nnich ease and con- 

 venience as possible, litter prevented, and the 

 disagreeable appearance of the beds con- 

 cealed. 



It is neccsary in most situations, and parti- 

 cularly in such as arc exposed, to have them, inr 

 closed with a fence, either of brick-work or pal- 

 ing, six or eight feet in height. They should have 

 sufficient space for containing a suitable number 

 of frames and pits, and such linings as may be 

 necessary in the working of them. And it is of 

 great advantage in raising many sorts of tender 

 crops, both of the vegetable and fruit kind, to 

 have four- or six-feet borders made round them in 

 a raised manner. 



Where melons are raised, it is usual to have 

 brick pits coped with stone or wood. Those which 

 are most convenient, according to Mr. Forsyth, 

 are such as are about twelve feet in width and 

 two and a half in depth ; the length in propor- 

 tion to the number of frames employed. They 

 arc, however, often made of much smaller di- 

 mensions, especially where the extent of forcing- 

 ground is but small. 



In regard to the size of the lights for early 

 melons, the above author advises, that they 

 should be five feet in length and three in breadth j 

 and for others, six feet in length and four m 

 breadth, the former being four- and the latter 

 three-light boxes. See Frame. 



In constructing the pits, nine-inch walls will 

 be sufficient, square spaces of wood being built 

 in the upper-parts of them, where wood copings 

 are made use of, to nail them to. As wood de- 

 cays rapidlv, stone should be preferred. Some- 

 times the walls are not built solid, but square 

 openings left, so as to admit the heal from the 

 outsidcs. See the plac annexed. 



Mr. Forsyth directs, that there " should be a 

 walk between the ridi;^es about six or seven feet 

 broad, sufficient to admit a cart to carry dung," 

 as being more expeditious than wheehng it in. 

 " The walk should be made up as high as the 

 coping, and sloping gently towards each end," 

 being laid in the bottom with brick rubbish, and 

 covered over with sea-coal ashes or sand. By 

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