CONSTKUCTION AND MANAGEMENT 



OF 



- OECHAED-HOUSES. 



SINCE these useful structures were first invented, 

 a great number have been built in various parts 

 of the country, and though many have answered 

 admirably, I have been surprised to hear of some 

 partial or entire failures. When our house was 

 first erected, we had no man on the grounds who 

 had ever grown a fruit tree in a pot ; and yet we 

 had a good crop of Peaches and Nectarines the 

 first year. Indeed the whole culture appears so 

 simple, that I have been quite surprised to learn 

 of difficulty being experienced by a person capable 

 of growing any plant in a pot. It is after all a 

 little unreasonable to expect that every person 



