Feb.] The Fruit Garden. 83 



the borders, &c. of the forcing departments, or may 

 have fome alfo in pots to remove therein at forcing time 

 occafionally. The trees may be bath as wall -trees and 

 fome cherries in fmall llandaids, and managed, in re- 

 gard to pruning, as thofe in the open ground. 



Let moderate fires be made every evening, or if there 

 is a pit within the forcing-houfe in which to have a bark 

 or dung hot-bed, may make the bed a week or fortnight 

 before you begin the fires; and if a bark-bed is intended, 

 fill the bark-pit with new tanners bark; or if a dung- 

 bed, make it with frelh hot horfe-dung : and when it has 

 fettled down ten or twelve inches, lay that depth of tan- 

 ners bark at top. I'hefe beds v/ill fupport a conilant m.)de- 

 rate warmth, and ferve in which to phice pots of dwarf 

 cherries, and pots of fcarlet and Alp ne Jtraw berries, which 

 will have fruit very early, and in great perfedion and 

 plenty. Continue making moderate fires every evening 

 foon after fan-fet, and fupport them till bed time, fo as 

 to v/arm the air of the houfe till morning; feldom m. ik- 

 ing any fire a days, unlefs in very iharp cloudy weather, 

 or occafionally in foggy damp morn'ngs for an iiour or 

 two ; efpeciaily if tii<rre is the alfillance alio of a bark or 

 dung hot-bel. 



Admit freih air to the trees every moderate day when' 

 funny, by Hiding foine of th>s upper Hoping glaffes, and 

 the uprights in front a little way open, lhuttin;g all cloie 

 timeouily towards afternoon, or as foon as the weather 

 changes cold ; giving air more fully as the warm feafoa 

 increafes. 



Give alfo occafional waterings both to the borders, and 

 over the branches of the trees before they blolTom ; but 

 when in flower, and until the fruit is all fairly well fet, 

 defift from watering over the branches, lei\ it deilroy the 

 fecundating male po/en. of the- anthera dellined for the 

 impregnation of the fruit. Afterwards let them have 

 water freely twice a week in fine weather, always with 

 fcft water, if pofTibie. 



The fires may be continued every night till April or 

 May, being careful never to make them ibonger than to 

 raife the internal heat much above 60? in the thermome- 

 ter in peach and cherry-houfes, and 70*^ in vine-houfes. 



According as the fruit advances to full growth, con- 

 tinue aiiiiling it by proper waterings ; and give free air 

 E 6 every 



