1J THE FRUIT GARDEN. [Jam. 



sorts as before noticed, next the back wall, two or three yards asun- 

 der, the others in rows from back to front, at six or eight feet dis- 

 tance, the tallest behind and the lowest in front, at three or four feet 

 distance in each row, making each row range against the intervals 

 of the trained trees behind; or if they are all standards, and half 

 standards, there will be more room for several sorts of smaller 

 plants under them; and as their branches will be nearer the top 

 glasses, it may be of particular advantage; and in the intervals may 

 be planted some low currants, gooseberries, raspberries, straw- 

 berries, dwarf-beans, kidney-beans, &c. But a frame of these 

 dimensions is sometimes planted entirely with standards, more 

 particularly cherries, as being more moderate shooters and soonest 

 arrive to a bearing state, so as to bear any tolerable quantity of 

 fruit; planting them five or six feet distance: sometimes standard 

 plums, apricots, peaches, and nectarines are also planted, and vines 

 to train up under the glasses. 



A frame of these dimensions, twenty-five i'eet long, may be 

 worked by one fire; but if more than thirty feet in length, two 

 furnaces for tires, with each its set of flues, will be necessary. 



With respect to the age of trees for both the above kinds of 

 fire-heat forcing-frames, they should be from three to four or five 

 years old, with regular heads of branches, two or three feet extent, 

 and just arrived at a tolerable bearing state; no very vigorous shoot- 

 ers must be admitted, but such only as assume a moderate, regular 

 growth, and are trained in the nursery until they have acquired a 

 proper size, each as directed under its respective head, whether as 

 wall trees or standards; they are to be transplanted into the frame 

 in October or November to remain for forcing; but should be per- 

 mitted to have a year or two's growth here before you begin forcing 

 them, that they may be firmly rooted; during which time all the 

 glasses should be entirely away, that the trees may have the full air 

 till forcing time is nearly arrived; or may occasionally have trained 

 bearing trees of small sizes in pots, if they have been in good 

 growth for one season at least, and so removed in their said pots 

 into the frame at the proper season as above. 



In both the above kinds of forcing-frames, you may also plant 

 some grape-vines on the outside of the front glasses in the full 

 ground, and their stems trained through holes, and conduct the 

 shoots along up the inside towards the glass-work to a sort of slight 

 trellis, keeping the branches quite thin; and they will ripen early 

 fruit, in great perfection. 



The season for beginning to make the fires for forcing the trees 

 in either of the above described fire-heat frames, is any time in 

 January, though about the middle, or towards the latter end of that 

 month, or beginning of February, is, for the general part, rather the 

 most successful time to begin the general forcing to have a good 

 crop? for if the trees are forced very early, there will be some 

 danger of their miscarrying; as, if they should come into blossom 

 when severe weather prevails, that air cannot be freely admitted 

 at intervals, they seldom set any tolerable crop of fruit; therefore, 



