206* On constructing a Peach-house. 



neath the soil ; and many gardeners, who have had the mis- 

 fortune to cultivate the Peach in situations where the roots, 

 at a small depth beneath the soil, were destroyed by water 

 during winter, or where the same effect was produced by the 

 unfavourable nature of the subsoil, must have observed the 

 injurious effects of mildew. 



I shall conclude my paper with observing, that I have 

 never seen the Peach in so great a state of perfection, as 

 when cultivated very nearly according to the preceding direc- 

 tions : and I estimate so highly the advantages of bringing 

 forward the fruit under glass, till it is nearly full grown, and 

 then exposing it to the stronger stimulus of sunshine, with- 

 out the intervention of the glass, and excluding it from rain 

 and dews, that I believe the Peach might be thus ripened 

 in greater perfection at St. Petersburg, in a house properly 

 adapted to the latitude of that place, than in the open air at 

 Rome, or Naples. 



