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THE FORCING GARDEN. 



The house illustrated below will be found an excel- 

 lent one for pot-Gooseberries, and if there is a wall nine 

 or ten feet high, the expense of building such a house 

 will be comparatively small. The back wall can be 

 appropriated either for Plums trained obliquely, or for 

 Eed Currants, where they will bear early and abundantly. 

 The Eed or White Currant can be trained in exactly the 

 same manner as the Plum or Cherry on the cordon 

 plan. The leaders will remain the same, and will last 

 for years, but all the young growth made the last 



FIG. 18. END SECTION OF A LEAN-TO HOUSE FOR CORDON PLUMS, OR RED CUR- 

 RANTS, ON THE BACK WALL ; AND THREE ROWS OF POT-GOOSEBERRIES. 



Back wall, ten feet high ; front, two feet ; eight feet wide. 



Reference. A, the wall, ten feet high ; B, the top ventilator, one foot wide all 

 along the house, to open and shut by rack gearing ; c, the bottom opening, one 

 foot wide, all along the front of house ; d, three rows of pot-gooseberry trees. 



season must be cut off close to the spur annually, 

 except such young wood as is required for the filling 

 up of vacant places. (See the ' Tree Pruner/) Green- 

 gages will do well in this house if planted two feet 

 apart and trained on the ' oblique cordon plan.' 



The above house is set out in the following propor- 

 tions : ten feet high at the back, eight feet wide, and of 

 any desired length. The cost of such a structure may 



