144 THE MODERN PEACH PRUNER. 



one at each end being* closed, these structures are 

 easy to manage, and would be very economical. 

 It is easy to see how only close pruning, as de- 

 scribed, could be practised in such cases. 



An adaptation of these principles, wherever the 

 front walls of an orchard-house were available, 

 would be to take one-half of the span of this 

 " ground peachery," which would give a light 7 

 feet long by 2 broad. Some bricks or perforated 

 planks, placed 30 inches from the wall of the 

 house, form a rest for the lower edge of the light, 

 and afford low ventilation, which is also secured 

 by an interval of 2 or 3 inches being left between 

 the upper edge of the light and the wall of the 

 house. Tiles or slates make the best floor for such 

 miniature lean-to houses. It is easy to place hinges 

 so as to open them, and they should be secured 

 from high winds lifting them. Mr. Rivers wrote 

 to me very recently, "It will be a hard fight 

 between these low lateral cordons and diagonals as 

 to produce. 5 ' No doubt of it ; and if the back wall 

 of the house and the low front be thus utilised, it 

 is difficult to conceive how they could be better 

 employed. The roots should be placed on a well- 

 drained spot, and the shoots of these lateral cordons 

 stopped at three leaves as soon as five are produced, 

 and second growth at two leaves as soon as three 

 or four are developed. 



