ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF PEACH-HOUSES. 



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warm and bright days, and secluded from the cold night air, and rain ; 

 which mode of management can, I think, be adopted most conveniently 

 in a house constructed according to the annexed sketch and dimensions, 

 and the following directions. 



As the lights, to be moved to the required extent with facility, must 

 necessarily be short, the back wall of the house must scarcely extend nine 

 feet in height; and this height raises the rafters sufficiently high to 

 permit the tallest person to walk with perfect convenience under them. 

 The lights are divided in the middle, at the point A, and the lower 

 are made to slide down to the point D, and the upper to the point 

 A*. The flue enters on the east or west end, as most convenient, 

 and passes within six inches of the east and west wall ; but not within 

 less than two feet of the low front wall ; and it returns in a parallel 

 line through the middle of the house, in the direction either east 

 or west, and goes out at the point at which it entered. The house 

 takes two rows of peach or nectarine trees, one of which is trained 

 on trellises, with intervals between, for the gardener to pass, parallel 

 with the dotted line C. These trees must be planted between the flue 

 and the front wall ; and the other row near the back wall, against which 

 they are to be trained. 



If early varieties be planted in the front, and the earliest where the 

 flue first enters, these being trained immediately over the flue and at a 

 small distance above it, will ripen first ; and if the lower lights be drawn 



* A bar of wood must extend from D to B, opposite the middle of each lower light, to sup- 

 port it when drawn down. 



