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scaly insect ; wliich is destroyed by washing the 

 branches, in winter, with soap-snds and sulphur, or 

 with the liquor, as directed at page 19'^- 



Plants, ke])t in pots or tubs, to be forced in suc- 

 cession, may be treated very much as directed above 

 for cherries. Two dozen, or thirty plants, would be 

 a good stock for that purpose. The first division 

 might be placed in a cherry or peach-house, about 

 the middle or latter end of the month. 



THE GRAPE.IIOUSE. 



Of plant'mg a new Grape-House, 

 The reader is referred to the sections on the Con- 

 struction of the Grape-House, on Soils, and on the 

 Kinds. It being presumed that every thing is rea- 

 dy, and t]iat the w^eather is open, about the middle 

 or latter end of the month is a very fit time to plant; 

 or indeed any time till the middle or latter end of 

 March. * 



The plants are to be planted behind the parapet, 

 between it and the front flue, and are to be trained 

 up the roof. One to be placed in the centre of each 



* I have planted grape-houses in May, and in June, that have 

 succeeded so well, as that the plants have reached the top of the 

 house before November in the same years. They were kept in 

 pots, and so carefully turned out of them in transplanting, as that 

 the plants experienced no check, althoujrh sprung many inches; 

 I li/no also (lone the like with peaches. 



