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15 the center bed was set with lettuce-plants seven inches 

 apart each way, and the side benches with radishes in 

 rows four inches apart. From this time until July i 

 every inch of available space was utilized for growing 

 plants and vegetables, and the quantity raised in this small 

 house was surprising. At the end of the season I found 

 that 65 dozen heads of lettuce, 58 dozen bunches of rad- 

 ishes, 390 cucumbers, 5,000 tomatoes grown in flats and 

 pricked out into coldframes when large enough, 800 

 plants of cauliflower, 700 cabbage-plants, 200 egg-plants 

 grown in large pots, and 500 flowering plants for bedding 

 purposes, including coleus, geraniums, cannas, pansies 



and chrysanthemums, had been sold from the house. 

 Cucumbers at this date (August 15) are still bearing. 

 They will be cleared away in a few days, and the house 

 thoroughly cleaned and filled with chrysanthemums that 

 have been growing in pots all summer. These will be 

 plunged in the soil on the benches, and freely watered 

 for a few days. Treated in this way they grow nicely, 

 and, in season, bloom in great profusion. When the 

 chrysanthemums have finished blooming, we will again 

 be ready for winter crops of vegetables, and the house 

 will be kept constantly at work and producing. — T. M. 

 White, Monmouth Co. , X. J. 



CHERRIES UNDER GLASS. 



THEIR CULTIVATION IN RIVER S ORCHARD- HOU SES, S AWB RI DGEWORTH , ENGLAND. 



N ORCHARD-HOUSES the cherry can 

 be grown with great success and to a high 

 state of perfection. An orchard-house 

 cannot be very far behind a greenhouse 

 in beauty, for spaces between the trees 

 can and ought to be filled with flower- 

 ering plants, and in spring-time the 

 houses are white with the soft, snowy 

 bloom of the cherry trees. You can 

 scarcely imagine a more beautiful sight 

 than a cherry-house full of trees laden 

 with beautifully-colored fruit, in rich va- 

 riation from dark brown and black to light 

 red and yellowish white. Some of the cherries are 

 as large as medium-sized plums, and hang upon the 

 trees for a long time without losin 

 much in either color or flavor. In- 

 deed, they improve in flavor and 

 sweetness by being left upon the tree 

 for some time after ripening, being 



blossomed and the fruits ripen, the house is as full of 

 beauty as it was before. For decorations on dinner-tables 

 nothing could be finer than a pyramid of Monstreuse de 

 Mezel cherry, with its big, bright-colored fruits and dark 

 green leaves. 



As I have said, cherries grown in orchard-houses may 

 be left a long while upon the tree to grow fine-flavored 

 and sweet. Another advantage of house-grown cherries 

 is that a good selection of sorts will give fruit from June 

 I to August 31. If they were given a fair showing, and 

 a partition all of their own under glass, where they could 

 be better tended than when mixed with other fruits, 

 cherries would rank as high as peaches, nectarines and 

 pears for this purpose. All who are fond of growing 

 fruits in pots should see the cherry-house in Mr. River's 

 nursery at Sawbridgeworth, Eng- 

 land, when the trees are full of 

 fruit. I am sure that after this 

 who intend to build orchard- 

 houses would plan 



partition for 



End View of an Enulish Greenhouse for Fruit Culture. 

 next to grapes in this respect ; but this is not possible cherries. It is unreasonable to require a gardener to 

 with outdoor cherries, as the rain, birds and mischiev- grow to the same degree of perfection in the same house 

 ous boys would spoil the fruit. After the trees have several different kinds of fruit. 



