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XLV. An Account of the Methods of Forcing Peaches in 

 Denmark and Holland. By Mr. Peter Lindegaard, 

 Corresponding Member of the Horticultural Society; 

 Gardener to His Majesty the King of Denmark, at the 

 Royal Gardens of Rosenburgh, near Copenhagen, 



Read January 1, 1822. 



In Denmark, our Forcing-houses for Peaches, (and the same 

 are used for Grapes,) are in the Dutch fashion, and quite 

 similar to those used in Holland ; they are very simply con- 

 structed of timber, the back and front walls being brick, with 

 boarding on the inside of the back wall, to which the trees 

 planted against it are trained. The length of our houses is 

 according to the number of the trees ; usually five lights, of 

 four feet and a half each, are allotted to a single tree, or ten 

 lights to two trees ; when the houses are longer, they are 

 then divided into two or more divisions, according to their 

 length ; one or two trees, as may happen, being kept in each 

 division. The width is in general six feet from the inside of 

 the back wall to the inside of the dwarf front wall ; the back 

 wall is about six feet and a half high. The annexed eleva- 

 tion, section, and ground-plan, will illustrate my description 

 of the house. Within the front wall is the pit, three feet and 

 a half deep, by three feet and a quarter wide, for receiving 

 the dung and tan used in the forcing. Fire is rarely em- 

 ployed in such forcing-houses, and many years experience 

 has proved that Peach trees and Vines will retain their 



