CONSTRUCTION OF PEACH-HOUSES. 13 



case may be, be near the highest known water-line 

 in that particular part, and there is no choice of 

 sites, it will be necessary to allow for this closeness 

 to the natural water-level in constructing the houses 

 by having one or more steps, according to circum- 

 stances, leading up to the house, or houses, from the 

 ground-line outside, so as to permit of the base of the 

 border being made above the ascertained water-level, 

 thereby preventing the possibility of the roots of the 

 trees being submerged at any time. 



Before erecting a peach-house, as in the case of 

 other fruit-houses, the individual family requirements 

 must be considered of the particular fruit which 

 the house about to be erected is put up to grow, 

 and the house must necessarily be large enough to 

 supply the demand for the produce grown therein, 

 the demand governing the question of supply and 

 consequent glass accommodation. 



However, where it can be done, a good-sized 

 forcing house, liberally supplied with four-inch hot- 

 water pipes, should be erected in preference to a 

 low, narrow, and consequently short-raftered struc- 

 ture, which means a too restricted growth in the 

 trees and fewer peaches. Therefore, a lean-to 

 peach-house should be about sixteen feet wide 

 inside between the front and back walls, the latter 

 being, say, fifteen feet high, and the height of the 

 front sashes from one and a half foot to two feet, 



