140 "^KE ORCHARD. [Fee. 
Admit fresh air to the trees every mild day when sunny, espe- 
cially after they begin to bud and shoot, either by sliding down 
some of the upper sloping glasses two or three inches, or drawing 
some of the uprights in front a little way open, shutting all close 
towards the afternoon, or as soon as the weather changes cold; 
giving air more fully as the warm season increases, and as the trees 
advance in blossom and shooting. 
Give also occasional waterings both to the borders and over the 
branches of the trees before they blossom j but when in flower and 
until the fruit is all fairly well set, desist from watering over the 
branches, lest it destroy the fecundating po//en of the anthera des- 
tined for the impregnation of the fruit. 
The fires maybe continued till towards May, being careful never 
to make them stronger than to raise the internal heat to about 60° 
o{ Fahrenheit^ thermometer, in peach and cherry-houses, and 70° 
in vine-houses; for in vineries, having only principally vines in 
forcing, the heat is generally continued stronger, as they bear it 
in a higher degree, whereby to forward the fruit to the earliest 
perfection. 
According as the fruit advances to full growth, continue assist- 
ing them by waterings, and give them free air every warm sunny 
day; and when advancing towards ripening, encourage a strong 
heat in the middle of the day, by admitting less or more air, in 
proportion to the power of the sun, to forward their maturity, and 
promote a rich flavour. 
Thus the fruits will ripen earlier by two months or more in 
some, than their natural time of perfection in the open ground and 
full air. 
In the above forcing departments you may also place pots of cur- 
rants, raspberries, and strawberries, &c. 
THE ORCHARD. 
The feelings of a lover of improvement can scarcely be expressed 
on observing the almost universal inattention paid to the greater 
number of our Orchards, and that people who go to a considerable 
expense in planting and establishing them, afterwards leave them 
to the rude hand of nature, as if the art and ingenuity of man 
availed nothing, or that they merited no further care; however, it 
is to be hoped that the good example and the consequent success of 
the careful and industrious, will stimulate others to pay the neces- 
sary attention to these departments, and thereby to serve them- 
selves as well as the community at large. 
At this season you can conveniently perform the very necessary 
and important works of pruning, of scraping and rubbing off moss 
and other parasitic plants, and of manuring the ground where 
