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yet it can, and certainly does, feel the effects cf 

 harshness ; ^hich it will remonstrate against, by 

 sullenly refiisiiiu,- to bear the burden ini})0.sed, arir] 

 so disappoint unjust hopes. 



THE PEACH-HOUSE. 



Of the Peach' House y forced this season. 

 It is now a proper season to prune and dress tlie 

 plants in this compartment, the more especially if 

 it be intended to Ibrce them early next year. Th<i 

 reader is necessarily referred to pru7ung of the plants 

 in March, April, and May. It is supposed they 

 have not made strovg^ but moderate shoots; which 

 are of course fully ripened to their extremities, on 

 account of tiie house having been forced. 



If the summer shoots have been regularly trained, 

 at the distances s}>ecified, and alluded to above, they 

 i\ ill not require much pruning at this time ; only 

 perhaps so much as shortening a few of the shoots 

 about the lower and middle parts of the tree, for the 

 ])urpose of providing a supply of young w^ood in 

 •these parts, and thimiing out such shoots liere and 

 there as have been left too tliick ; for others, should 

 not be shortened, but should be laid in at full lengthy 

 that is, such as are short, stout, nearly of an equal 

 thickness, and have a bold wood-bud at the extremi- 

 ty; as from these may be expected the best fruit 

 next season. 



1\\ some parts of the tree, perhaps, or in some 

 particular trees, it may be expedient to cut out such 



