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ance and quality. You will find it pleasanter, in 

 cold spring weather, to be under glass, than nailing 

 trees against a wall. For four or five months the 

 orchard-house is no trouble. If walls already 

 exist, they will be very convenient for choice Pears, 

 and you will have a chance, by the same means, 

 of furnishing Ribston Pippin Apples, White Cal- 

 ville, &c., fit to be eaten. In advertisements we 

 shall soon see, " Wanted, a Gardener familiar with 

 Orchard-house Culture." These structures, being 

 without fire heat, are such agreeable places to 

 walk in during cold east winds, and afford so 

 much comfort to the aged and infirm, that they 

 will be built, and young gardeners will do wisely 

 to learn how to manage them. 



To nurserymen I would say, though orchard- 

 houses are a luxury to others, they are a necessity 

 to you. None know better the difficulty experi- 

 enced in procuring Peaches and Nectarines true 

 to nams, leaving out of the question those rogues 

 who will purposely substitute one kind for another, 

 how few have the means of fruiting all the varieties 

 of Peaches and Nectarines on walls. Without 

 specimen plants to furnish buds, how is it possible 

 to keep a stock tolerably correct to name ? Work- 



