48 



GLEANINGS ON HORTICULTURE, 



facility of setting of the fruit are greatly enhanced by steauiing the 

 house night and morning from watering the pipes (when the 

 water has been boiling some little time) with a syringe. 



Strawberries ripen well on these boards, as well as French 

 beans, &c., at an early period of the year. I have two trained 

 Moor Park apricots (grafted on apricot stocks) on the trellis; a 

 Royal George peach; Noblesse and Violet, T. Octavo ditto ; also 

 trained at the back of the house ; six standard apricots (dwarf), 

 viz., three large peach-apricots, and three Moor Park apricots; a 

 dwarf Marie-Louise pear grafted on a quince stock ; a dwarf 

 standard Florence, and a dwarf standard Bigarreau Gros Coeuret 

 cherry, grafted on Mahaleb stocks, in my orchard-house. They 

 are planted in pots fifteen-inch; i.e., three to a cast; the bottoms 

 to the extent of eleven-inches being open, with abundance of 

 drainage. 



' The compost. — Two-thirds turfy loam and one-third decom- 

 posed manure, to which some road-sand is added ; it should not 

 be sifted, and if the loam contains large pieces of turf, the size of 

 an egg, so much the better.'— ( Vide Mr. Rivers's treatise, called 

 The Orchard House, p. 12.) These trees are planted on the 

 opposite side of the pathway in the house to that where the 

 pipes run, and I have now abundance of fruit on each tree. 



Warner's Boiler and Pipes. 



