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trees in pots may be grown and fruited satisfactorily 

 in an ordinary greenhouse by attending to their 

 special requirements in the way of keeping the 

 foliage clean, and the roots well supplied with water 

 during active growth. 



Peaches may be profitably grown in pots stood in 

 a row in an encased peach wall without in any way 

 interfering with the welfare of the trees which the 

 glass case was specially erected to protect and 

 forward the ripening of the fruit. 



I have in my mind's eye a long, narrow, elliptical- 

 shaped house, which was erected 

 many years ago from a walking- 

 stick and gravel-walk sketch in 

 the gardens at Scone Palace, 

 Perth (see Figs. 16 and 17), 

 against a wall if my memory 

 is correct eighteen feet high, FIG - J 7- GREATLY REDUCED. 

 and having a due south aspect facing the Pineatum ; 

 the width and length were, I think, nine feet and 190 

 feet respectively. The front wall was above one foot 

 high, including a top course of dressed stone into 

 which the curvilinear iron rafters were leaded, with 

 the top ends secured to the back wall underneath 

 the stone coping. Bent glass was used, as a matter 

 of course, in glazing the roof, the front and top 

 continuous ventilators being worked by machinery 

 from the centre of the house and a lever used 



