108 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 



method be followed, peaches and nectarines may be 

 made to flourish in our dry southern counties, where 

 they have hitherto brought nothing but disappoint- 

 ment. 



The two grand essentials for peach culture are stiff 

 loam and a sunny climate. 



A CHEAP METHOD OF PROTECTING WALL TREES. 



At Twyford Lodge, near East Grin stead, Sussex, 

 the seat of E. Trotter, Esq., is a wall 75 feet long, 

 covered with peaches and nectarines, which, for sev- 

 eral years, had given no fruit ; some years ago, the 

 gardener, Mr. Murrell, asked my advice about pro- 

 tecting it with glass ; and, acting upon it with his own 

 adaptation, has succeeded, every season since its erec- 

 tion, in securing fine crops of fruit of superior flavor. 

 The following is a description of this simple struc- 

 ture : 



At the top of the wall, which is 12 feet high, is 

 nailed a plate for the ends of the rafters to rest on ; 4 

 feet 6 inches from the wall is a row of posts, 6 inches 

 by 4 (these should be of oak), 6 feet apart, and 3 feet 

 6 inches in height, from the ground ; on these is nail- 

 ed a plate to receive the lower ends of the rafters ; the 

 latter are 8 feet long, 3 inches by 1|, and 20 inches 

 asunder ; and the glass employed is 16 oz. sheet, 20 

 inches by 12. Every fourth square of glass at the top 

 next the wall is fixed into a slight frame of wood, 

 with a hinge at the top of each, and made to open 

 all at once by a line running in a wheel ; the front is 

 of f -inch deal boards nailed to the posts, one of which, 

 one foot wide, near the top, is on hinges, forming a 



