152 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



Fix the tree loosely to the wall, and water the roots 

 through a rose. 



The season I prefer for planting is autumn, say the 

 beginning of November or end of October, when the 

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

 ever, be performed, and often is successful, from Octo- 

 ber 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 witli 

 fruit without the loss of a season or a crop. 



PRUNING AND TRAINING. 



Many ways of training and pruning the peach and 

 nectarine have been practised and recommended. 

 French horticulturists especially have been very suc- 

 cessful in training • them in several ways characterised 

 by regularity and neatness. The single - cordon as 

 well as the multiciple-cordon systems are favourite 

 modes of training in France. Modifications partaking 

 more or less of the French systems have been prac- 

 tised 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 con- 



