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yet it can, and certainly does, feel the effects of 

 harshness; which it will remonstrate against, by 

 sullenly refusing to bear the burden imposed, and so 

 disappoint unjust hopes. 



THE PEACH-HOUSE. 



Of the Peach-House, forced this season. 



It is now a proper season to prune and dress the 

 plants in this compartment, the more especially if it 

 be intended to force them early next year. The 

 reader is necessarily referred to pruning of the plants 

 in March, April, and May. It is supposed they 

 have not made strong, but moderate shoots ; which 

 are of course fully ripened to their extremities, on 

 account of the house having been forced. 



If the summer shoots have been regularly trained, 

 at the distances specified, and alluded to above, they 

 will not require much pruning at this time ; only 

 perhaps so much as shortening a few of the shoots 

 about the lower and middle parts of the tree, for the 

 purpose of providing a supply of young wood in 

 these parts, and thinning out such shoots here and 

 there as have been left too thick. For others should 

 not be shortened, but should be laid in at full length; 

 that is, such as are short, stout, nearly of an equal 

 thickness, and have a bold wood-bud at the extremi- 

 ty ; as from these may be expected the best fruit 

 next season. 



In some parts of the tree, perhaps, or in some 

 particular trees, it may be expedient to cut out such 



