8^d THE rORCIXC G-tRDEN. [^JAK*. 



the day ; shutting up, however, from snow or rainl 

 Thus })reparing lor lighting the fires the iirst of Yc- 

 bruary. 



THE PEACH-IIOUSE. 



Of planting a new Feach-house. 



The reader is referred to the sections on the Con^ 

 f;truction of the Peach-house, the Preparation of the 

 ISoil, and the Kinds of nectarines: and peaches. It 

 is presumed that all is ready for phmtingj and tliat 

 both nectarines and peaches are to be cultivated 

 in the same house, their treatment bein-g similar in 

 every respect. 



In peach-houses, intended for early forcing, of 

 the dimen&ions as described at page ^7-5, the trees 

 should be planted in front, aftd trained up the roof, 

 in the manner of grapes; training none on the back- 

 wall. It is common, in narrov/ peach-houses, tO 

 plant the treeS; and train them againtst tlie back-wall 

 only ; but it is a better way to reverse this order, 

 and train them up the roof only ; by which the 

 plants have a greater extent, (the roof measuring 

 more than the back-v/all); and the fruit maybe pro- 

 duced in higher perfection, being nearer to the su^i 

 and air. 



In a house thirty feet loitg, three dwarfs should 

 be planted, and in one thirty-iive or ibrty, four 

 dwarfs ; with riders between them, in either case^ 

 Clean, healthy dwarfs, tliat have been one or two 

 years trained^ arc to be preferred to older plants. 



