THE FORCING GARDENER. [B. I. 



neceflary here than on the common wall, 

 on account that the wind is not fo much 

 helping to this efFedt. 



SECTION V. 



On tie "Temperature of tie Peach- Houfi. 



FIRE heat fhould not be applied fooner 

 than the third feafon ; and then on- 

 ly to ripen the wood, in the Autumn, (if 

 neceflary), for the better production of a 

 crop the fourth year. But as, even the 

 fourth feafon, the trees will bear but very 

 gentle forcing, and as I wifli to be parti- 

 cular on this head > I fhall wave the far- 

 ther confederation of the temperature of 

 the houfe to the fifth feafbn, and fhall then 

 fuppofe the forcing is to be commenced on 

 the id of February. 



Let the fire be made fo moderate the 

 firft fortnight, that the thermometer may 

 not ftand at eight at night, and feven in 

 the morning, a*bove 45 j and, in the courfe 

 of the fecond fortnight, increafe to 50 ; 

 afterwards gradually to 55 > at which 



point 



