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the east and west wall, but not within less than two 

 feet of the low front wall, and it returns in a parallel 

 line through the middle of the house, in the direction 

 either east or west, and goes out at the point at which 

 it entered. The house takes two rows of peach or 

 nectarine trees, one of which is trained on trelHses, 

 with intervals between for the gardener to pass, paral- 

 leled with the dotted line c. These trees must be 

 planted between the flue and the front wall, and the 

 other row near the back wall, against which they are 

 to be trained. 



If early varieties be planted in the front, and the 

 earliest where the flue first enters, these being trained 

 immediately over the flue, and at a small distance 

 above it, will ripen first ; and if the lower lights be 

 drawn down in fine weather to the point b, every 

 part of the fruit on the trees which are trained nearly 

 horizontally along the dotted line c, will receive the 

 full influence of the sun. The upper lights must be 

 moved as usual by cords and pulleys, and if these be 

 let down to the point a, after the fruit in the front 

 tree is gathered, every part of the trees on the back 

 wall will be fully exposed to the sun, at any period of 

 the spring and summer after the middle of April, 

 without the intervention of the glass. A single fire- 

 place will be suflicient for a house fifty feet long, 

 and the foregoing plan and dimensions will be 

 found to combine more advantage than can ever be 



