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the face of the wall, and on which their finest-fla- 

 voured apples are produced. Under the impression 

 that this situation of the bearing wood was in a kind of 

 mitigated temperature, suitable for maturing the fruit, 

 the late Earl of Holderness, when in possession of 

 Sion Hill, near Brentford, had all his extensive 

 south wall trellised, according to the continental 

 method, and had also a Dutch gardener to manage 

 the trees. But neither the idea of the Earl was realized, 

 nor the skill of his gardener effectual ; after a fair 

 trial, the plan was abandoned, the trellis removed, 

 and the trees placed close to the wall, where they 

 flourished, and bore fine crops. A good reason, 

 perhaps, may be given for the different effects of the 

 French and English treatment. In the former coun- 

 try, the heat reflected from the wall might be too 

 intense for the fruit in close contact with the face of 

 it ; whereas the heat from the wall in England was 

 only in the requisite degree. 



Although trellises are in universal use in British 

 hot-houses, and this chiefly because the smoke-flues 

 are usually built behind them, yet the author does 

 not think this arrangement absolutely necessary ; on 

 the contrary, the most successful peach-forcing he 

 ever witnessed was in houses built for the late Earl 

 of Thanet, at Hotheld, in Kent, from a plan fur- 

 nished by a Mr. Shiels, a nurseryman of some note, 

 near London. In these peach houses, the trees were 

 planted close to, and trained on the bare wall, and no 

 trees in the kingdom did better, or yielded finer, 

 high-coloured fruit. This circumstance is mentioned 



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