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third, or to about half their lengths, also according 

 to their strength, and how well they have been ri- 

 pened. They should be thinned so at this time, as 

 that the shoots which are to issue from them next 

 season, may be laid in at the medium distance of 

 about six inches. 



The riders need not be pruned near so much as 

 the dwarfs, as we are wishful to have them produce 

 a full crop of fruit next season. They may be 

 pruned very much in the manner of the trees in the 

 early house, as directed above ; shortening no shoots 

 that are fully ripened, except a few of those at the 

 extremities of the tree, in order to make them throw 

 out others for its full extension upwards next year. 



When they are all pruned, let the trees and 

 trellis be carefully anointed ; dress them in again ; 

 and let the border be forked over ; all as directed 

 above for the early forced house. 



With respect to the new planted house, the trees 

 will bear gentle forcing next spring, from the first 

 or middle of March ; which ought to be considered 

 merely as preparatory to forcing them fully, from 

 about the first of February, the third year. By con- 

 sidering the directions given throughout this season, 

 for the management of this, and of the other peach- 

 house, it will not be difficult to proceed properly with 

 it next year. A word to the novice in forcing, how- 

 ever : Be diffident ; and drive too slow, rather than 

 too fast. Most new beginners in this business make 

 haste to outdo, or to eclipse their neighbours ; and 

 so drive on at a pace they cannot long keep up, but 

 founder their steed, and stop short by the way. 



