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feet apart. These cordon trees are the best class of 

 wall tree for Peach, Nectarine, and Apricot cultivation 

 as well as for Plums. My reason for saying so is two- 

 fold : first of all, a wall can be covered with these 

 much sooner than by any other kind of tree ; and 

 secondly, these trees can be easily lifted once a year 

 to check the over-luxuriant growth which Peaches 

 are so much liable to when in good ground and 

 while they are young. Thirdly, more fruit can be had 

 from a given space than by any other class of tree. 



In addition to these trees on the back wall, one 

 row of dwarf pot Plums or Greengages may be set in a 

 line three feet from the wall about two feet apart in the 

 line, that will, allow for twenty trees ; and in front of 

 these, three rows of pot Strawberries, forty pots in each 

 row equal to 120 pots. 



The Plums can all be removed from the house as soon 

 as the fruit is set and placed outside to ripen. The fruit 

 would be set about May, or by the beginning of June, 

 so that no shading to hurt the Peaches could occur, 

 and the whole of the Strawberries would be ripe by 

 that time, so that all these might likewise be removed. 

 Now there will be nothing in this house but the 

 Peaches, which must have air admitted night and day, 

 above and below, from the end of June until the fruit 

 is ripe. The probable result of all this will be a 

 remunerative one. 



I may now venture to give some idea of what will 

 be the effect of the careful management of such a 

 house. Twenty Peach trees planted at the back will 

 in the course of two years from the planting, if well 

 managed, give two dozen good fruit each, which at, 

 say, 6s. per dozen = 121. ; 120 pots of Strawberries, 



