ally offered for sale. For plauting in the border, 

 choose fan-trained trees, 2 or 3 years old, providing 

 they have been properly transplanted. {See Priming.) 



Indoor peaches and nectarines, with proper care, are 

 profitable for 10 years after planting. The following 

 temperatures for the peach house are suitable for early 

 Forcing : for the first two weeks, 40° by night and 50" 

 by day ; then a rise to 45° by night and 55° or G0° by day, 

 with the sun, which should carry them until their bloom- 

 ing period ; then 50° by night and 60° to 70° by day, 

 with sun heat ; after the fruit is set, a rise of 5° or 10° 

 on mild nights would be all right, with the day tempera- 

 ture correspondingly increased. Peaches delight in 

 fresh air; therefore air should be given at every oppor- 

 tunity. Syringe the trees twice a day in bright weatli in 

 hold off while the trees are in blossom ; after the fruit 

 Is set, syringe again twice every bright day, and once a 

 week with whale-oil soap, using enough soap to just color 



FORCING 



The shoot, if not needed, should be pinched, leaving 

 three or four leaves to develop the fruit. Trees that are 

 properly cared for during the summer months need 

 little pruning in the winter. Probably the hardest task 

 of all to the grower is thinning the fruit, but this must 

 be done. There cannot be any set number for a tree to 

 carry. Judgment must be used in that respect. Necta- 

 rines can be cropped more heavily than peaches. After 

 the crop is gathered, all the useless wood should be cut 

 away to allow plenty of light and sunshine around the 

 wood that is intended for the following season. When 

 the wood is thoroughly ripened it is in condition to 

 stand zero weather. The temperature of peach houses 

 can go down below zero without a bud bfiiiL' kil!<<). In 

 fact, it is not necessary to use any nrtnh mI Ii, h .niiil 

 starting the house. Close the house il^ i i ii-; 



open up in the morning before the i ■ -• s 



much, and avoid exciting the buds. S.in ^ i h.m- -i . lias 

 warm days during the winter months. On such tiays it 

 is well to keep doors as well as ventilators open. 



All the peaches and nectarines recommended for the 

 pe:K-h house are admirably adapted for pot work. 



mil' r fruits may be added to these, as apples, pears, 

 llinii-, c-lit-rries, figs, apri- 

 ■"'-, tw'. (see articles nn- 

 il.r 111. -.; headings). The 

 loUowii.g are some of the 

 best varieties the writer 

 has grown: Plums — Gol- 

 den Esperin, Jefferson, 

 Denniston Superb, Green 

 Gage, Grand Duke, The 

 Czar, Early Transparent ; 

 Pun rs — Magnet, Princess, 

 Souv. du Cougres, Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey Pitmas 

 ton Duchess Beurre Diel, 

 J;);)?pj,— ^\ ilhams Favor 

 ite, Benoni, King of the 

 Pippins W ashmgton King 

 of Tompkins tount^ Belle 

 de Pontoise, Bismarck, 

 Peisgood Nonesuch, 

 T nih HoinikHi Thomas 



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I 1 I II \1 1 \ 1 LANT'^ 



- Vii 11 iin d method 



of oht lining large quanti 

 ties of flowers in wm 

 ter extensnely used ^^ 

 by commercial florists ^ 

 for cut - flowers and ^ 

 flowering plants 

 Plants usuallj forced 

 are hyacinths, tulips, 851 Lilac pruned i r I r me 



narcissus and other 



Dutch bulbs, lily of the vallej, astilbe, daentia hybrid 

 peipetual roses, Veutzia giucihs, h\brid rhododen- 

 drons (if Suuniif IP ^?n/p<r »!0»is),"ind Ghentaza 

 leas and lilacs Foi r tl, n I ints see A G 14 402(1893) 



This mode of i i 1 1 1 1 i i it sm ill cost has 

 ilwajs been moi ^raong plantsmen, 



ind of late jear^ I i h impetus owing to 



the hei\ y deman 1 1 i I n i 1 ints it 1 istii It 



1 II t c nh an mexrensnt nuth(Hl 1 ii i i i 



lilt « ith most plants, after a httlt n u 



t II Tiling can be easily calculati i I 



cold 



the water. This is a good remedy for greenfly, spider, 

 etc., and produces a fine, glossy foliage. It is better to 

 disbud by degrees rather than to remove a large quan- 

 tity of foliage at once, which would naturally cause a 

 check to the tree. Disbudding requires good judgment. 



stoi if,c it a tcmperjtuie suflicienth low to pre-jent 

 grow th this diflicultj may eventuallj be overcome Ex 

 cept, however, with lily-of-the-vallej , which is admir- 

 ably adapted to this practice, we know little of the pos- 

 sibilities of this form of Forcing: it is hoped that other 

 plants, equally useful, may be treated in this way. It 

 is evident that, on account of the cost of storage, bulky 

 pLants could not be handled. 



The requirements for successful Forcing are: (1) a 



