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scaly insect ; which is destroyed by washing the 

 branches in winter, with soap-suds and sulphur, or 

 with the liquor, as directed at page 198. 



Plants kept in pots or tubs, to be forced in suc- 

 cession, may be treated very much as directed above 

 for cherries. Two dozen, or thirty plants, would 

 be a good stock for that purpose. The first division 

 might be placed in a cherry or peach-house, about 

 the middle or latter end of the month. 



THE GRAPE-HOUSE. 



Of planting a new Grape- House. 



The reader is referred to the sections on the Con- 

 struction of the Grape-house, on Soils, and on the 

 Kinds. It being presumed that every thing is ready, 

 and that the weather is open, about the middle or 

 latter end of the month is a very fit time to plant ; 

 or indeed any time till the middle or latter end of 

 March *. 



The plants are to be planted behind the parapet, 

 between it and the front flue, and are to be trained 

 up the roof. One to be placed in the centre of each 



* I have planted grape-houses in May, and in June, that have 

 succeeded so well, as that the plants have reached the top of the 

 house before November in the same years. They were kept ili 

 pots, and so carefully turned out of them in transplanting, as that 

 the plants experienced no check, although sprung many inches. 

 I have also done the like with peaches. 



