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After the above fumigating and washing, about the 

 middle of November, the shoots should be pruned 

 and tied in, the borders lightly forked over, a little 

 charred turf put on them inside, and some long litter, 

 a foot deep, on the border outside, to protect the 

 roots from frost. 



Other systems, — Having given the results of our 

 own experience, whether originally our own or confir- 

 matory of the practices of others, we will now give 

 the modes of forcing adopted by Mr. Henderson and 

 Mr. Mearns, not because they differ from our own, 

 but because they offer some useful hints. 



Mr» W, Henderson^ gardener to W. F. Campbell, 

 Esq., of Lanark, directs the peach-forcer to shut up 

 the house about the 1 st of December. If the weather 

 be mild, apply no fire-heat for two weeks ; but if it 

 be frosty, put on a little fire every night. In the 

 course of four weeks the buds begin to swell ; being 

 at that time able to distinguish the best buds, prune 

 and cut away as much as possible of the wood that 

 bore the fruit last season, and tie in the young shoots 

 that were made in the course of the summer. These 

 shoots were allowed to grow upright, and were not 

 tied down till this time. Cut out all the worst 

 shoots, and leave none except those that are well- 

 ripened, and full of perfect and strong flower-buds ; 

 these shoots shorten from fourteen to six inches, ac- 

 cording to their strength, always observing to cut 



