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further on this subject, in the Fruit Garden for 

 June and July. But thin with caution ; and by 

 little and little, till the stoning be over, and all 

 danger of dropping be past. 



Of forcing Nectarines and Peaches on open Fhicd-xvaUs. 



This s})ecies of forcing is practised by many in a 

 very injudicious manner ; and much mischief has 

 been done through error, to thousands of fine trees; 

 many of which I have myself seen ruined, or next 

 to ruined, by a wrong mode of treatment. My ob- 

 ject here shall be to place these errors in a just light, 

 and to offer directions for a method more safe. 



No kind of forcing is so intricate as that attend- 

 ing upon open flued walls,' without having any sort 

 of co\$r; which may easily be conceived, when it is 

 considered that the plants are placed between the 

 extremes of heat and cold at one and the same time. 

 The error is the greater, and the practice the more 

 censurable, the earlier in the season such forcing 

 be conruienced. The temperature cannot be regu- 

 lated here, as in the hot-house ; nor can the effects 

 of frost on advanced vegetation be resisted without 

 means that may prove more hurtful, namely, the ap- 



case, there is an obvious remedy. In the former case, in so far 

 as regards several kinds of fruits, I have frequently restored 

 health, by divesting the plants partly, or entirely, of their crops, 

 for a season, or for two seasons. We complain, in bad years, 

 when the crops out of doors are carried off by adverse weather ; 

 but Nature is thus often relieved, and health restored to sickly 

 over-burthened plants. 



