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a trellis, for training them upon ; and in front of these may 

 be planted rows of young cherries, both in small standards, half 

 standards, and dwarfs ; the full standards to have about five feet 

 stems, the half standards three or four, and the dwarfs, one or two 

 feet stems ; each sort, both trained trees and standards, to be plan- 

 ted when about from three to four or five years old, as soon as they 

 acquire a bearing state, with regular heads of two or three feet 

 extent, at first planting. Having procured the trees, and the ground 

 ready for their reception, may then plant one range of the choicest 

 sorts as before noticed, next the back wall, two or three yards asun- 

 der, the others in rows from back to front, at six or eight feet dis- 

 tance, the tallest behind and the lowest in front, at three or four feet 

 distance in each row, making each row range against the intervals 

 of the trained trees behind ; or if they are all standards and half 

 standards, there will be more room for several sorts of smaller 

 plants under them ; and as their branches will be nearer the top 

 glasses, it may be of particular advantage ; and in the intervals may 

 be planted some low currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawber- 

 ries, dwarf-beans, kidney-beans, Sec. But a frame of these dimen- 

 sions is sometimes planted entirely with standards, more particu- 

 larly cherries, as being more moderate shooters and soonest arrive 

 to a bearing state, so as to bear any tolerable quantity of fruit ; 

 planting them five or six feet distance : sometimes standard plums, 

 apricots, peaches, and nectarines are also planted, and vines to train 

 up under the glasses. 



A Frame of these dimensions, twenty-five feet long, may be 

 worked by one fire ; but if more than thirty feet in length, two 

 furnaces for fires, with each its set of flues, will be necessary. 



With respect to the age of the trees for both the above kinds of 

 fire-heat forcing frames, they should be from three to four or five 

 years old, with regular heads of branches, two or three feet extent, 

 and just arrived at a tolerable bearing state ; no very vigorous shoot- 

 ers must be admitted, but such only as assume a moderate regular 

 growth, and are trained in the nursery until they have acquired a 

 proper size, each as directed under its respective head, whether as 

 wall trees or standards ; they are to be transplanted into the Frame 

 in October or November to remain for forcing ; but should be per- 

 mitted to have a year or two's growth here before you begin forcing 

 them, that they may be firmly rooted ; during which time all the 

 glasses should be entirely away, that the trees may have the full air 

 till forcing time is nearly arrived ; or may occasionally have trained 

 bearing trees, of small sizes, in pots, if they have been in good 

 growth for one season at least, and so removed in their said pots 

 into the frame at the proper season, as above. 



In both the above kinds of forcing frames, you may also plant 

 some grape-vines on the outside of the front glasses in the full 

 ground) and their stems trained through holes, and conduct the 

 shoots along up the inside towards the glass-work to a sort of slight 

 trellis, keeping the branches quite thin ; and they will ripen early 

 fruit, in great perfection. 



