PEACH-HOUSE. 349 



The Peach-IIouse. — A peacli-liouse, intended to be 

 commanded by one furnace, is generally about forty feet 

 long, ten or twelve feet wide,- and fourteen feet high ; 

 but these dimensions may be varied considerably, ac- 

 cording to the time at which the crop is desired to come 

 in. For early forcing, perhaps twenty-five or thirty feet 

 in length, and seven or eight in breadth, are sufficient ; 

 while a house ii> which the operations of nature are 

 only to be slightly accelerated may be extended to fifty 

 feet. As in the vinery, the fruit wall is arched, to per- 

 mit the egress of the roots to the neighboring border. 

 Upon this front wall is usually placed a range of up- 

 right sashes, which are surmounted by the sloping raft- 

 ers of the roof. A common form of a peach-house is 

 annexed, the upper figure showing the vertical section, 

 and the under one the ground plan ; a, a, are the flues, 

 h is the table trellis, c the trellis on the back wall ; along 

 with which a hanging trellis, represented at p. 344, is 

 sometimes employed, although this is not approved of 

 by many. The flue, which is. built on pillars and re- 

 turns on itself, occupies the centre of the house. The 

 trees are trained to the two trellises 5 and c, and to the 

 hanging trellis, if such be in use. Against the back 

 wall three or four,d^a.rf t4"6es are planted, with inter- 

 mediate riders, the latter being altogether removed at 

 the end of four or five years at furthest. These, with 

 three for the. front. trellis, make in all nine or ten trees 

 for each house. ; 



The figure on page '351 represents another form of. 

 the pcach-h-ouse-, riot so generally used as the former, bUt 

 of equal if riot superior' merit. We have supposed it 

 heated by a water apparatus «, «, but that is not an. 

 essential matter, as a common flue is equally applicable. 



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