32 THE FRUIT GROWER'S GUIDE. 



"lass are much larger, higher-coloured, and clearer- skinned than those of similar varieties 

 grown against walls, and other aids to climate. Exhibitors take advantage of this in 

 producing many handsome specimens seen at shows. The choicer tender-fleshed Ameri- 

 can varieties grown under glass in this country are superb, excelling imported fruit 

 in size, colour, bloom, and quality. Tender-fleshed, richly-flavoured apples, grown in a 

 glass-house are particularly suited for persons inconvenienced by a hard-fleshed fruit, 

 and this mode of culture is specially applicable to localities that are subject to smoke and 

 dusty deposits near towns, also where the fumes of factories and chemical works have a 

 bad effect on vegetation. 



Varieties of apples suitable for growing under glass, named in order of succession, 

 to insure a supply of fruit from August to April inclusive : 



Red Astrachan. 

 Williams' Favourite. 

 Benoni. 

 Cardinal. 

 Washington. 

 Emperor Alexander. 

 Peasgood's Nonesuch. 

 American Mother. 



Gravenstein. 



Wealthy. 



Bismarck. 



Beauty of Waltham. 



Melon Apple. 



Cox's Orange Pippin. 



Buckingham. 



Sandringham. 



Ribston Pippin. 

 Gascoi pile's Seedling. 

 Reinette de Canada. 

 Baumann's Reinette. 

 King of Tomkin's County. 

 Peck's Pleasant. 

 Northern Spy. 

 Calville Malingre. 



Houses. Simple inexpensive structures, as span and three-quarter span, answer when 

 the trees are grown in pots, but when planted out it is advisable to have the roof lights 

 movable. This admits of the trees being exposed to the invigorating influences of the 

 autumn rains, and ensures complete rest in the buds during the winter. Severe frosts do 

 not injure the trees provided their growths are well matured. 



The timber used in constructing the house should be sound, thoroughly-seasoned 

 red deal, and the roof lights glazed with 21 ounces sheet glass, thirds, in panes not less 

 than 10 inches wide, 15 ounces, thirds, answering for the side lights. The top and side 

 lights need not be removable, but the roof lights (b, Fig. 17) must be portable. 



The trees for furnishing the house may be cordons single or with from two to six 

 branches, planting them at the sides of the house, as in Q, and training them to a wire 

 trellis 1 foot from the glass, with the branches not less than 1 foot apart. This arrange- 

 ment affords the finest, but not the most fruit. The borders need not be wider at first 

 than between the outside walls (t) and the pillars (#). 



Another plan of furnishing the house consists of cordon tres disposed along the sides, 

 trained part of the way up the roof, as in $, with vertical trellises cross-wise of the house 

 between the pillars (d\ one trellis under each rafter, 4 feet apart. Cordons, upright 



