146 TfiE FORCING GARDENER. [B. I. 



alfo, that, as the border for the Peach- 

 houfe is to be only three feet deep, it will 

 be unneceflary to found the pillars, which 

 fupport the front wall and flues, any deeper 

 than three feet and a half. 



In a houfe of this kind, a trellis is to be 

 fixed againft the roof-beams or rafters, to 

 the extent of half their height ; trees plant- 

 ed between the front flue and wall, and 

 trained thereto. Thefe will lin nowife 

 fhade thofe on the back. And thus will 

 one houfe be rendered nearly equal to two, 

 as the trees on the front will have a run of 

 eleven or twelve feet. 



I conceive this mode to be preferable to 

 the common practice of planting grape- 

 vines to run up the rafters in the Peach- 

 houfe ; firft, becaufe, by the vines, the 

 Peaches are generally much (haded ; fe- 

 condly, the foil for Peaches, and the foil 

 for grapes, fhould be formed of different 

 materials, and of different depths ; and, 

 thirdly, it is fimply impoffible to make and 

 regulate a climate in one and the fame 

 houfe to fuit both the plants in queftion. 

 Of this the reader may be farther convin- 

 ced by carefully perufing and comparing 



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