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middle, or latter end of April, the shoots are so much grown 

 as to come in contact with the glass, and it is of course neces- 

 sary, in a fine day, to take off the lights for thinning these. 

 When the Peaches begin to form the stone, that is, about the 

 beginning of May, much air must be admitted, and particu- 

 larly on fine days. I never let the thermometer rise higher 

 than twenty-five degrees (88° of Fahrenheit,) although it 

 be so placed that the sun's rays act upon it; should a 

 particularly bright day occur, I then have recourse to a 

 little shading. When the Peaches are nearly full grown, 

 the admission of air is encreased, and the lights are not 

 closed in the night, in order to inure the trees and fruit to 

 the open air. When the Peaches approach their ripening, 

 I then remove the lights entirely : this, if possible, should 

 be done on a cloudy day ; but however it will be necessary, 

 during sunshine, in the succeeding eight days, to put some 

 sprays of branches over the tree, for the sun s rays at this 

 period fall almost perpendicularly upon the tree, and would 

 injure the fruit. 



When the roots of the tree are exposed to the open air, 

 that is, when the mats and moss are taken off, great atten- 

 tion must be paid in supplying them sufficiently with water, 

 for they are much exposed to the influence of the sun and 

 air. The sort of Peach which is used generally for forcing 

 on this plan, and also in the other Peach-houses, is the 

 Double Montagne; it was introduced into Denmark from 

 Holland, and is by the Dutch, as well as by us, considered the 

 best kind for forcing. 



For the Dutch frame, I always choose trees from sixteen 

 to twenty years old ; they never suffer by transplanting when 



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