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XXIV. Account of a Mode of Managing Peach Trees, in 

 an Early Peach House. By Mr. Walter Henderson, 

 Corresponding Member of the Horticultural Society, 

 Gardener to Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq. M. P. 

 F. HS. at Woodhall, in Lanarkshire. 



Read February 6, 1827. 



Sir, 



The following is an account of the way I have trained, 

 pruned, and managed the Peach trees, in the Early Peach 

 House at Woodhall, for these last twenty-seven years. 



The Peach House is forty-five feet long, and thirteen feet 

 six inches wide ; the front of the house stands on pillars ; the 

 trees are planted inside of the house, fourteen inches from 

 the front wall. There are two nine inch courses of freestone 

 above the border, and a sash ; which, including the top and 

 bottom wall plates of wood, makes the whole height of the 

 front four feet six inches. A man can pass along the front, 

 betwixt the trees and the upright sash, to prune and dress 

 them as far as he can reach up. The trees are trained on a 

 trellis of wood ; this, at first, is three and a half feet distant 

 from the front sash ; after it passes the front sash, the trellis 

 is parallel to the sloping glass, two feet three inches from the 

 glass, and is continued thus to the top of the house. 



There is only one flue, which coming from the back, at 

 the east end of the house, runs along the middle of the bor- 

 der to the opposite end, and returns, entering into a chimney 

 over the fire. Between the flue and the back wall, is a "pit 

 three feet deep, and four feet eight inches wide, which is kept 



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