CH. 8.] PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 



may be fuccefsfully prolonged from the 

 fifft of May to the firft or middle of No- 

 vember. 



My mode was this : I began to force 

 my firft houfe on the firft of December, 

 and as it was not much to be depended 

 on at that early feafon, my fecond on the 

 firft of January ; my third on the firft of 

 March ; and the fourth, 1 let come of its 

 own accord, without the aid of any fire 

 heat. I never applied fire to the flued wall 

 until the firft or middle of Auguft, and 

 that in order to ripen the wood^ and haften 

 the maturity of the late fruit. 



I did not reverfe the fucceffive order of 

 the Peach-houfes, and confequently they 

 were always ready to vegetate at the fame 

 time of year, on the application of the fire 

 heat,, much lefs to their detriment, in my 

 opinion, than had they been changed in 

 the order of fucceffion. 

 I would here obferve, that Peach-trees, 

 if forced every year, will wear out in the 

 courfe of twelve or fourteen ; and, there- 

 fore, about the eight or tenth year, young 



L 4 dwarfs 



which there were canvas fcreens 5 alto a few trees on the 

 common wall. 



