60 CORDON TEAINING. 



fruit smaller in size, but generally finer in color. By March 

 all pruning must be over as before directed, and watering, 

 except in severe frosts, begin. Ventilate in mild or sunny 

 weather, but let the house be closed up in windy weather, or 

 at night. Changes of temperature or high winds are now 

 fatal to the blossoms, and the trees look most beautiful. A 

 handsome orchard-house of great length will look extremely 

 like a well-filled conservatory at this period ; the various-col- 

 ored blossoms making a gay and cheerful appearance, all the 

 more precious because of the coldness of the out-door weather. 

 But on sunny days, with the ventilation then needed, the air 

 will soon be heated by some 10 degrees, and be refreshing to 

 the invalid, resembling that of a southern climate. 



Having spent many winters in the south, I can answer for 

 the resemblance in the dry and fragrant temperature ; per- 

 haps the less we talk about the latter quality in the south the 

 better, except among the orange and lemon trees. I can im- 

 agine nothing more refreshing than for a studious man to 

 have a long walk like this opening out of his study. Every 

 time he raises his eyes he is delighted with the lovely view, 

 and when, unable to resist the temptation, he arises and 

 strolls through his young trees, all so familiar to him, how 

 can he refrain from being thankful for such precious gifts ! 

 A house 100 feet long will furnish him, in its two paths and 

 extremities, with 250 feet of space for exercise, unexposed to 

 the weather, and from which he cannot but return to his 

 labors much strengthened and revived. These young trees 

 are highly suggestive. In tlieir growth, in their production, 

 in their rest, and in their decay, they are all potent images of 

 our own harassing career, and of its final close. 



taken from a table kept at the London Horticultural Society's Garden at Cliis- 

 wick : — 



The night temperature varies from 36° to 52°, and the day temperature from 

 66° to 80", rarely more than 72°. 



In our climate the night temperature varies from 50° to 75°, and the day tem- 

 perature from 70° to 100°. 



In fact many of the nights of July are as cool as with us in April, when a fire 

 is required in our early graperies. — c. M. H.] 



