322 THE FORCING GARDEN. 



the day ; shutting up, however, from snow or rain. 

 Thus preparing for lighting the fires the first of Fe- 

 bruary. 



THE PEACH-HOUSE. 



Of planting a new Peach-house. 



The reader is referred to the sections on the Con- 

 struction of the Peach-house, the Preparation of the 

 Soil, and the Kinds of nectarines and peaches. It 

 is presumed that all is ready for planting, and 

 that both nectarines and peaches are to be cultivated 

 in the same house, their treatment being similar in 

 every respect. 



In peach-houses, intended for early forcing, of 

 the dimensions as described at page 275, the trees 

 should be planted in front, and trained up the roof, 

 in the manner of grapes ; training none on the back- 

 wall. It is common, in narrow peach-houses, to 

 plant the trees, and train them against the back- wall 

 only ; but it is a better way to reverse this order, 

 and train them up the roof only ; by which the 

 plants have a greater extent, (the roof measuring 

 more than the back-wall,) and the fruit may be pro- 

 duced in higher perfection, being nearer to the sun 

 and air. 



In a house thirty feet long, three dwarfs should 

 be planted, and in one thirty-five or forty, four 

 dwarfs ; with riders between them, in either case. 

 Clean, healthy dwarfs, that have been one or two 

 years trained, are to be preferred to older plants. 



