152 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



beginning of November or end of October, wlien the 

 leaves are dropping off the trees. Planting can, how- 

 ever, be performed, and often is successful, from October 

 to April. In planting peach-houses, where healthy- 

 trees exist on the open walls, it is a good plan to lift 

 some that are of considerable size, say planted five or six 

 years, and transfer them to the peach-house. I have done 

 this and got a good crop the same season. Every fibre 

 should be carefully saved in the process. By this means 

 a peach-house can be furnished with fruit without the 

 loss of a season or a crop. 



PKUNING AND TEAINING. 



Many ways of training and pruning the peach and 

 nectarine have been practised and recommended. 

 French horticulturists especially have been very success- 

 ful in training them in several ways characterised by 

 regularity and neatness. The single-cordon as well as 

 the multiciple-cordonsystemsarefavouritemodesof train- 

 ing in France. Modifications partaking more or less of the 

 French systems have been practised and recommended, 

 especially by Seymour, in England. But the ordinary 

 fan system of training is by far the most generally 

 practised and liked. It is, especially under glass, the 

 mode of training which the most successful forcers of the 

 peach have adopted, and it is that which I recommend. 

 Many grand old examples of peach-trees under glass 

 are to be found in this country, which have all along 

 been trained on the fan principle, and that are yet in 

 fine bearing condition, being well furnished from top to 

 bottom with young bearing wood. Taking a young tree, 

 fig. 15, which I have recommended for planting as the 



