THE FRUIT GARDEN. 4| 
If it is therefore intended to have a narrow Frame for only a row 
of trained trees behind, the width from four to five or six feet is 
sufficient, having the back or main wall formed of brick or stone, 
as aforesaid, eight or ten feet hi.ti;h, with several flues withinside, 
returned over each other, cunninii^ the whole length of the wall; 
in the front must be a low wall a foot high, on which to lay a plate 
of timber, and from which are ranged glass frames or lights in one 
continued slope to the top of the back wall, there received into pro- 
per frame work; but for the greater convenience, the lights may 
be in two tiers or ranges, an under and ujjper tier, the upper range 
made to slide up and down over the others, but so as all the glass- 
work can be moved away occasionally, to admit the full air to the 
trees after the work • of forcing; the whole boitom space within 
this frame must be of good loamy earth, or any good garden 
mould, tw'j spades deep, which must be dug or trenched in tiie com- 
mon way; then plant a range of irees behind, towards the wall, 
and two or three yards asunder, erecting a trellis behind them, 
upon which to train the branches as against a wall or espalier; be- 
sides these trees, there may be other inferior plants set in the bor- 
der or in pots, in front of the trees, as strawberries, dwarf kidney- 
beans, dwarf peas, he. dwarf roses, or the like, that will not rise 
high enough to shade the fruit trees in the back range. 
A fiame of this construction, forty feet long, may be worked by 
one fire; but if longer, two furnaces for fires will be requisite. 
But to have a more capacious Frame both for trained trees and 
low standards, it may be of any length from twenty lo fifty feet or 
more, but must be ten or fifteen feet wide, having an upright back 
wall of brick ten feet high, with flues as above directed, and a low 
wall in front one or two feet high, on which is erected upright glass- 
work, four or five feet perpendicular, and from the top of these, a 
sloping roof of glass frames, continued to the top of the back wall, 
supported upon proper bearers three feet, or three feet six inches 
distance, having the top glasses in two ranges, an under and upper 
range, as before advised, both of which, and those of the upright in 
front, made to slide, and move away occasionally: in this frame 
there will be I'oom to walk under the glass-work in any part, and 
there will be also due I'oom for the trees, both dwarfs and low stand- 
ards; and then having the whole ground space withinside of loamy, 
or other good earth, as in the other frame, you may plant your 
trees, some in one range against the back wall, as peaches, necta- 
rines, apricots, grapes, figs, Sec. six or eight feet asunder, erecting 
a trellis, for training them upon; and in front of these may 
be planted rov/s of young cherries, both in small standards, half 
standards, and dwarfs; the full standards to have about five feet 
stems, the half standards three or four, and the dwarfs, one or two 
feet stems; each sort, both trained trees and standards, to be plant- 
ed when about from three to four or five years old, as soon as they 
acquire a bearing state, with regular heads of two or three feet 
extent, at first planting. Having procured the trees, and the ground 
ready for their reception, may then plant one range of the choicest 
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