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the lovers of science, as they will he gratifying to those, whose chief 
object it is to add to, or extend, the beauties of the greenhouse and 
flower garden. 
I remain, your?, respectfully, 
G. I. T. 
Article V. — Method of Forcing Grapes, Peaches, Nec- 
tarines, Cherries, Figs, Gooseberries, Currants, or any 
other kind of Fruit. By Mr. James Waldron. 
Gentlemen, 
I HEREWITH send you a rough sketch of a plan for early 
forcing fruit-trees of any description in a common frame ; which, if you 
think worth a page in your Register, you may insert it. The system I 
am perfectly satisfied, will answer, and the fruit be as fine and high fla- 
voured as it can possibly be grown any other way; and the same bed 
will endure forcing for several years successively. This method, is one 
of the best both for early and late crops of cucumbers and melons, and 
is attended with but little trouble and expense. 
First, a trench, (fig. 63, a) is opened in the ground, to the depth of 
four feet, and about nine feet wide. A quantity of thick turf is then 
prepared, and v/ith this turf, walls are constructed, [b b) six inches 
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thick, paring them with an old hay-knife, and forming a square in 
the centre of the trench, of about three feet six inches wide, and as 
long as may be required for containing the soil, (c) in which the trees 
are to be planted. Previous to putting in the soil, a quantity of stones, 
or rammel, [d] should be laid at the bottom, about twelve inches thick. 
The wooden frame, (e) is then placed on the top of the turf walls, and a 
tree planted in thecentie of each light, (/) to be trained in the manner 
shown in the plan. The remainder of the trench is then filled up with 
good linings, either of dung and leaves mixed with hops from a brewery, 
or leaves and tan ; this lining should be pretty often renewed, and there 
