8o THE BOOK OF THE PEACH. 



an inch of the top of the rims of the individual pots. 

 This done, the pots should be stood on a bed of 

 cinders and ashes and watered, syringing the trees 

 overhead two or three times a day in order to freshen 

 up the foliage and to preserve the leaves on the trees 

 until the roots have taken hold of the new soil, and 

 with this object in view the trees should be shaded 

 with a strip of tiffany during sunshine, for a week or 

 ten days, by wjiich time the roots will have pushed 

 into the compost. On the approach of winter the 

 pots should be protected from the effects of frost by 

 a covering of leaves and stable litter. The litter is 

 added to prevent the leaves being disturbed by the 

 force of the wind. 



Assuming that the disbudding (see article under 

 this heading, p. 65) and pinching of the shoots re- 

 tained to form the tree and produce fruit the follow- 

 ing year has been judiciously attended to during 

 the previous April and four following months, very 

 little winter pruning of the trees will be necessary, 

 further than the shortening back of a growth here 

 and there by way of getting the individual trees 

 into symmetrical shape before removing them to the 

 glass structure wherein they are to fruit. Trees 

 thus treated present a graceful and natural appear- 

 ance when laden with ripe fruit, owing to the fact 

 of the young bearing shoots of the previous year's 

 growths having been only shortened back a little 



