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removed when the dwarfs require their room, 

 as it would prove a loss rather than a gain to 

 have them too much crowded. 



The next and only other row of trees that I 

 would recommend to be planted in the peach- 

 house, is along near the front path, these also 

 previously trained as before described. The 

 plan I am about to describe is one of the best 

 methods I ever witnessed ; have a thin iron 

 frame-work constructed in a semicircular form, 

 about the substance of iron hurdles generally 

 used to protect pleasure grounds, &c. from sheep ; 

 this should be fixed along the front within ten 

 or twelve inches of the pathway, and made to 

 bow over the centre of the bottom of the house, 

 supported by uprights, fixed at necessary dis- 

 tances along the back, near to the footpath, with 

 strong iron wires run through the frame- work, 

 about five or six inches apart to train the trees 

 to ; by this plan the whole of the centre of the 

 house will be covered with fruit trees, as well as 

 the back, and the frame- work being bowed over, 

 it will very little obstruct the sun from the trees 

 at the back, as the frame should be made to 



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