FORCING DEPARTMENT. :vv 



Summer months, and kept well supplied with water 

 in dry weather. 



The limiting the roots to a small portion of 

 nourishment, at this stage, I conceive to be of infi- 

 nite advantage for the future success of the trees, as 

 it lessens their tendency to luxuriance, and causes 

 them to produce kind-bearing wood, at once, with- 

 out having recourse to that degree of lopping which 

 would otherwise be necessary to procure a supply of 

 shoots in young trees. There is another advantage 

 in potting the trees, viz. that they may be removed, 

 at any season, without sustaining the least injury, 

 as their roots will, in a very short time, become 

 matted round the edges of the pots ; thus they can be 

 turned out, and planted, without receiving the small- 

 est check. The distances the Peach-Trees are 

 planted at, should be regulated according to the 

 length of the house, and proportion of trellising they 

 are intended to fill : in low narrow houses, they will 

 require to be placed further asunder than in houses 

 of larger dimensions. The dwarfs may be from nine 

 to twelve feet apart ; but planting a rider betwixt 

 every two such trees, which will furnish the top part 

 of the wall or trellising. These standards, or riders, 

 are generally cut away as the dwarfs advance, and 

 furnish the lower part of the trellis ; but this opera- 

 tion should be dispensed with, at least until such 

 time as the trees have all produced fruit, and it can be 

 ascertained whether that of the dwarfs, or riders, is 

 of the best quality : then, if the latter proves superior 

 to the former, they should be cut away, and the 

 lower branches of the rider trained in a pendulous 



