FETJIT FOR SALE-UNDER GLASS CULTURE. 



comprises two methods : one in wall-cases or orchard houses, unheated in warm 

 situations or heated in cold districts so as to have fruits with certainty and in per- 

 fection at their natural seasons ; the other in heated structures, called forcing-houses, for 

 having the fruits ripe at given times. Various structures essential to attain these 

 objects have been illustrated and described under the different fruits, therefore a few 

 observations on the cultivation of fruit for sale, according to the methods under notice, 

 only remain to be made. 



COOL TREATMENT. 



Wall- Cases. A glazed cover, supported on iron standards, with a sloping roof, 

 movable roof-lights, 6 feet wide, fixed against a wall 10 feet in height, costs 16s. 6d. 

 per foot run. Such a structure allows space for a narrow walk inside, fruit trees being 

 trained to the wall and cordon trees in front, thinly disposed and extending about one- 

 third up the sloping lights. If the wall be 12 feet in height, and a lean-to or three- 

 quarters span-roofed house is erected against it, 12 feet in width, with boards and front 

 lights, on the principle of an orchard hduse, the cost is about -1 5s. per foot run. 

 Trees can be grown on the wall, and others in front in bush form, affording, when in 

 full bearing, twenty-four peaches per foot run of house, worth 6s. to 12s. The wider 

 structure costs relatively only one-third more than the case, but the returns are doubled. 

 Growers must take matters of this kind into consideration. 



As regards the cost of construction, some persons assert that a house constructed of 

 the best materials in the most approved style is the cheapest in the end. An elaborate 

 span-roofed structure, 30 feet long and 20 feet wide, appropriate for a gentleman's 

 garden, costs 80, exclusive of brickwork, internal fittings, and cartage ; a market 

 fruit-growing house of the same dimensions 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, 10 feet from 

 floor to ridge, sides 5 feet 6 inches high, 2 feet 6 inches glass below the eaves, with 

 boards below, costs 50 complete, about half the expense of the noble house. As 

 for profit, there is little or none in structures costing twice as much as is necessary to 

 produce fruit of the largest size and greatest excellence. 



