50 THE FORCING GARDEN. 



except that Plums bear on the old wood and Peaches 

 on the young wood, i.e. on the wood made the preced- 

 ing year will be a good and abundant crop on the back 

 wall, and also from the pot-plants. 



I may venture to make a calculation with respect 

 to the results, for the satisfaction of those who may be 

 somewhat diffident as to whether it would pay to erect 

 such a house merely for Plum growing. In the first 

 place, the actual cost of such a house may be given at 

 20?., not more. Then there are the twenty cordon 

 Plums at Is. 6d. each = 30s. ; then sixty dwarf bush 

 Plums for potting at Is. 6d. = 4L 10s. ; and sixty eleven- 

 inch pots at 3s. 6d. per dozen = 17s. 6d. ; one load 

 of maiden loam and rotten manure, 5s. ; total cost, 

 271. 2s. 6d. The first year, nothing. The second year, 

 half a crop, say two dozen fruit from each tree at 2s. 

 per dozen, that would be, from eighty trees, 160 dozen 

 fruit, which, at 2s. per dozen supposing them to be 

 Greengages = 16?. The third season, three dozen or 

 more may be had from each tree, till at last four or five 

 dozen fruit may be had in this way. Thus it will be 

 seen that from such a house full 40L worth of fruit 

 may be had eventually, which cost originally, with its 

 contents, but 271. 2s. Qd. And I do not overrate the 

 thing; for something more may be made from this 

 house besides the Plums every season. 



All the Plums in pots may be removed from the 

 house as soon as the fruit is set and swelled off a little 

 and the danger of frosty nights is over, say by the 

 middle of June. They can then be moved from the 

 house and set upon a good border of soil where they 

 can get all the summer sun, and then the fruit will 

 ripen equally as well as in the house, the floor of which 



