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On Constructing a Peach-house. 



after the lights are taken off, the growth of the fruit is 

 suddenly checked, and its quality greatly injured : and I 

 have never met with the Peach in so much perfection, as 

 when it has been raised in a house where it could be con- 

 veniently exposed to the sun in warm and bright days, and 

 secluded from the cold night air, and rain ; which mode of 

 management can, I think, be adopted most conveniently in 

 a house constructed according to the annexed sketch and 

 dimensions, and the following directions. 



As the lights, to be moved to the required extent, with 

 facility, must necessarily be short, the back wall of the 

 house must scarcely extend nine feet in height ; and this 

 height raises the rafters sufficiently high to permit the tallest 

 person to walk with perfect convenience under them. The 

 lights are divided in the middle, at the point A, and the 

 lower are made to slide down to the point D, and the upper 

 to the point A*. The flue enters on the east or west end, 

 as most convenient, and passes within six inches of the east 

 and west wall ; but not within less than two feet of the low 

 front wall ; and it returns in a parallel line through the 

 middle of the house, in the direction either east or west, 

 and goes out at the point at which it entered. The house 

 takes two rows of Peach or Nectarine trees, one of which 

 is trained on trellises, with intervals between, for the gar- 

 dener to pass, parallel with the dotted line C. These trees 

 must be planted between the flue and the front wall ; and 

 the other row near the back wall, against which they are to 

 be trained. 



* A bar of wood must extend from D to B, opposite the middle of each lower 

 light, to support it, when drawn down 



