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XLI. Upon forcing the Peach Tree. By Mr. Robert 

 Errington, Gardener to Sir Philip De Malpas Grey 

 Egerton, Bart., M. P. F. II. S., Oulton Park, Cheshire. 



Read January 21, 1840. 



I herewith send an account of the extraordinary Peach Tree, 

 at Oulton Park, the Seat of Sir P. De M. Grey Egerton, 

 Bart., for the produce of which the Horticultural Society of 

 London was pleased to award four medals, in four successive years. 

 I will first describe the house, the time and mode of planting, &c, 

 and then add some account of the general management of the 

 Peach, according to my practice. 



The tree in question is of the Noblesse kind, according to the 

 Horticultural Society of London ; the house is metallic, built by 

 Mr. J. Jones of Birmingham, it has an angle of fifty degrees, with 

 an upright front sash of three feet from the ground level, and was 

 completed by the 1st of January 1832. It is thirty feet long by 

 twelve feet wide, and is furnished with one trellis only, which runs 

 parallel with the roof at the distance of fourteen inches, excepting 

 the base of the trellis, which meets the ground at thirty-six inches 

 from the front lights, thus allowing a front walk to give air, &c, 

 the front wall is on arches, and the tree planted inside, con- 

 sequently it has roots both inside and outside. It is heated in 

 common with two other metallic houses by one boiler, on the plans 

 of Mr. J. Jones of Birmingham ; nothing can in my opinion excel 

 the mode of heating ; the roof glazing is done in the curvilinear way, 

 the laps being leaded with a hole in the centre of the curve for the 

 escape of condensed steam. The border for the Peach was excavated 

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