XXXVIII. On the best Method of constructing a Peach* 

 house. % Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. #c. 



Read April 3, 1810. 



I sent to the Horticultural Society, in 1808, a description 

 of my Vinery at Downton*, which I supposed to be so con- 

 structed as to receive the greatest heat, with the least expen- 

 diture of fuel, and to admit the greatest quantity of light, 

 through the least extent of glass, at those seasons of the 

 year when light is wanted : and I then expressed a hope, 

 that some other Members of the Society would give plans 

 for the proper construction of forcing-houses, for other pur- 

 poses. But as this has not been done, I take up my pen to 

 offer some observations on the most advantageous form and 

 dimension of a Peach-house. 



Another gentleman, the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, has, how- 

 ever, subsequently undertaken to prove that the inclination 

 of roof, which I have recommended, is, by no means, the 

 most advantageous ; and it will therefore be necessary for 

 me first to answer the objections he has stated.-f For si- 

 lence, on my part, relative to those objections, would ap- 

 pear contemptuous, if I persist, as I do, in retaining every 

 opinion, which I have given in that paper ; particularly as 

 the small deviation from my former plan for a Vinery, in 



* See the Horticultural Transactions, page 99. f Ibid, page \6l. 

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