* THE FORCING GARDENER. [B. ti 



Some apply fire heat to their flued walls 

 in the Spring. This I pointedly difapprove 

 of, as no fpecies of forcing is fo intricate ; 

 the trees being placed between the extremes 

 of heat and cold, and it being quite im- 

 poffible to make or regulate a climate for 

 them. All that is necefifary for the pro- 

 dudion of a crop, is, ripening and harden- 

 ing the wood in Autumn, and fcreening 

 from frofty and boifterous winds in Spring. 



By the time the buds begin to appear 

 turgid in the Spring, let the fcreens be 

 hung up : and, if canvas, let them down in 

 the day, from eight in the morning to five 

 or fix in the afternoon, in mild weather ; 

 but if boifterous frofty winds prevail, con- 

 tinue them all day. They fhould not be 

 totally removed till about the middle of 

 June ; by which time the* fruit will be fair- 

 ly fet, and all danger will be paft. 



About the firft or middle of Auguft, ac- 

 cording to the feaibn and forwardnefs of 

 the fruit and wood, light the fires. Thefe 

 muft be made very moderate at firft, and 

 increafed as the feafon advances. If the 

 furface of the wall, about the fecond courfe 

 of the flue, is kept milk-warm in the night, 

 it is all that is neceflary. And here ob- 



ferve, 



