42 THE FRUIT GARDEN. 
sorts as before noticed, next the back wall, two or three yards asun- 
der, the others in rows from back to front, at six or eitjht feet dis- 
tance, the tallest behind and the lowest in front, at three or four feet 
distance in each row, making each row range against the intervals 
of the trained trees behind; or if they are all standards, and half 
standards, ihere will be more room for several sorts of smaller 
plants tmder them; and as their branches will be nearer the top 
glasses, it may be of particular advantage; and in the intervals may 
be pLnted some low currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawber- 
ries, dvvarf-btans, kidney beans, Sec. But a frame of these dimen- 
sionb is sometimes planted entirely with standards, more particu- 
larly cherries, as beiog rnore moderate shooters and soonest arrive 
to a bearing state, so as to bear any tolerable quantity of fruit; 
planting them five or six feet distance: sometimes standard plums, 
apricots, peaches, and nectarines are also planted, and vines to train 
up under the glasses. 
A Frame of these dimensions, twenty-five feet long, may be 
worked by one fire; but if more than thirty feet in length, two 
furnaces for fires, with each its set of flues, will be necessary. 
With respect to the age of the trees for both the above kinds of 
fire- heat forcing frames, they should be from three to four or five 
years old, with regular heads of branches, two or three feet extent, 
and just arrived at a tolerable bearing state; no very vigorous shoot- 
ers must be admitted, but such only as assume a moderate regular 
growth, and are trained in the nursery until they have acquired a 
proper size, each as directed under its respective head, whether as 
Wail trees or standards; they are to be transplanted into the Frame 
in October or N.vcnnber to remain for forcing; but should be per- 
mitted to have a year or two's growth here before you begin forcing 
them, that they may be firmly rooted; during which time all the 
glasses should be entirely away, that the trees may have the full air 
till forcing time is nearly arrived; or may occasionally have trained 
bearing trees, of small sizes, in pots, if they have been in good 
growth for one season at least, and so removed in their said pots 
into the frame at the proper season as above. 
In both the above kinds of forcing frames, you may also plant 
some graije -vines on the outside of the front glasses in the full 
grcuml, and their stems trained through holes, and conduct the 
shoots along up the inside towards the glass-work to a sort of slight 
trellis, keeping the branches quite thin; and they will ripen early 
fruit, in great perfeciion. 
The season lir beginning to make the fires for forcing the trees 
in either of the above described fire-heat frames, is any lime in Ja- 
nuary, though about the middle, or towards the latter end of that 
month, or beginning of February, is, for the general part, rather the 
mosi successiul tiu.e to begin the general forcing to have a good 
crop; ior if the tree^ are forced very early, there will be some dan- 
ger of their miscarrying; as, if they should come into blossom, 
■when severe weather prevails, that air cannot be freely admitted at 
intervals, they seldom set any tolerable crop of fruit; therefore, 
