THE COTTAGE GAllHENEii. 
NovEJiiiEii 0. 
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jiaste made of flour, cream, tlic yolks and whites of eggs, 
I and seasoned with salt, xiepper, and cloves; dredge them 
: witli Hour mixed with bread crumbs and parsley chopped 
line, and then fry them in oil or butter. 
To FaiCASSEE r>EET. —Take Beet-root which has been 
boiled, and cut it in slices, which put into a stew-pan with 
butter, parsley, cloves, chopped finely, a littlo garlic, flour, 
vinegar, salt, and peji^’er; stow the whole, a quarter-of-au- 
! hour, and serve with white sauce. 
Beet Sanewioh. —Take Beet which has been fried as 
directed above, and lay it between bread and butter, with a 
! little mustard. 
! Beet Soup. —Boil till tender two roots of Beet, and rub 
olT the skin with a coarse towel, mince them finely along with 
two or three onions. Add this to five parts of rich gravy 
soup, so as to make it rather thick; then stir in three or 
four tablespoonfids of vinegar and one of brown sugar; let 
it boil, and throw in some fricandeilans,* made up in the 
form of corks, and rolled in flour. 
To Pickle Beet.— -Boil the roots till they are three-parts 
done, and when a little cool, peel them, and cut them in 
slices half-an inch thick, or any other shape which may ho 
desired. Put them into ajar, and pour over them a pickle 
made by adding to each quart of vinegar an ounce of ground 
black pepper, half-an-ouuce of ginger, pounded, the same 
of salt, and of horseradish cut in slices, all of wliich should 
stand by the fire for two or three days to steeq); and then 
only the clear liquor to be used when cold,— Bogee Ash- 
POLE. 
ORCHARD HO USES. 
Mu. Ferguson’s article, i)p. 9 and 10, on the produce, 
and that of J\Ir. Fish, page 9(1, on the structure, of these 
houses, induce mo to give a few words about them, the 
result of recent experience. 
Mr. Ferguson 1 know to be an excellent and experienced 
gardener, too much a stay-at-home, perhaps, as most gar¬ 
deners by necessity are, and this naturally leads to a 
“ leetle ” inclination to self sulliciency, the besetting sin of 
our o-aft. lie treats Urchard-houses as toys; and first 
ridicules, and then praises, Mr. Gordon for his attention to 
his pot trees. 
1 have only hard facts to narrate, and so I will at once 
give an account of my culture dining the past season, that 
my produce may be comiiarcd with that from walls or 
trellised Peach-houses. 
1 have one house appropriated to bearing trees of Peaches 
and Nectarines. These trees are from three to six years old ; 
the house is about sixty-six feet long, and tw'enty feet wide, 
with a central border six feet wide, and two side borders 
each four-and-a-lialf feet wide. The central border is fifty- 
six feet long, and on it are placed sixty trees of Peaches 
and Nectarines, in thirteen-inch pots. These sixty trees 
have given, during the months of August, Se^itember, and 
October, an average of two-and-a-half dozen each, or l-iO 
dozen. On the two borders at the sides, forty trees (twenty 
on each side), have given a crop equal to the central border; 
thus giving for the whole house 2b0 dozen of fine fruit of 
all the choicest varieties known. My Peaches averaged 
from seven to nine inches in circumference. 
The power of cultivating numerous varieties, early and 
late, from the lied Nutiiiei/ Peach ripening in July, to Pavie 
de Poinpoiinc iwit now about ripening, is something worth 
thinking about. Can such a prolongation of the season of 
Peaches and Nectarines be secured from a wall or a trellis 
of the dimensions of my central border (fifty-six feet long 
by six feet), on which only four trees can be trained ? 
Is this Orchard-house culture a “toy,” or a idaything ? 
“ A Scotch ” echo whispers, “ No, I don’t think it is.” 
Peach-trees, when trained against walls, or on trellises, in 
a Peach-house, require to be planted about fifteen feet apart, 
from full and well grown trees, each covering that siiace^ 
* To Make Fricandellans.—M iuce about two pounds of tender 
lean l)ccf, and tUrce-quarters-of-n-pound of fresh suet, then pound it till 
it be as smooth as a paste, and carefully pick out all the threads and 
sinews; add four well-beaten eggs, half-a-pint of cream, and as much 
grated and sifted bread as will make it sufficiently consistent to form 
into rolls resembling corks, and season it with salt and pep|)cr. 
will give a large quantity of fruit, hut it is evident that no 
great variety of sorts, so as to spread over the season, can 
he jnoduced. The Peach-house, with its large trees on 
trellises, is w'ell adaiited for the supply of a market, or of a 
very large establislinient, but it is not so pleasant and 
domestic a mode of growing fruit us that of the Orchard- 
house, and the trees require a really good gardener to prune 
and train them jiroiierly. 
Besides, one cannot walk amoiuj ones trees and look over 
every fruit; and then it is tiresome to he obliged to walk 
always in the shade, and to have always to look upwards and 
see nut the “ sunny side” of a Peach ; and then the house 
can only he used for one inirpose; no Boses; no btraw- 
herries; in short, cultivating Peaches and Nectarines for 
pleasure, in any other way than in Orchard-houses, is all 
“ leather and inuuella,” and there’s an end of it. 
M'ith respect to the proper Stocks for Peaches and Nec¬ 
tarines, tliere. are hut two sorts of Plums eligible, viz., the 
JMkscIc and the Blade JJamas/c. I’eacli ami Almond Stocks 
succeed well for trees cultivated in pots, as their roots 
require the warmth of the Orchard-house air; and tliis 
leads mo to observe, that plunging pots containing I’each 
and Nectarine-trees is had practice. The lust-menlioued 
kinds of Stocks are totally unfitted for opien air culture in 
England, unless in a soil of light blowing sand; in such a 
soil they would, probably, succeed, when trees on Plum 
Stocks would, to a certainly, blight and die, 
Mr. Ferguson’s venerable Peach-tree may he jiroductive ; 
a decaying old Oak-tree in a park is a most interesting 
object, but a decaying and aged fruit-tree has no beauty ; 
and although a market gardener might tolerate it for its 
produce, it ought not to be in a well-arranged I’eacli-liouse. 
In such a place all should ho health and vigour. 
In Mr. Fish’s notice of Orchard-houses, lie mentions tliat 
the width of twenty inches from rafter to rafter is too much. 
T'liis is an error. 1 have squares of all sizes, and upwards of 
19,01)0 feel, twenty inches by tw'elvc and fifteen inches, 
placed crosswise, and the laps puttied. I have long since 
decided that this is the best and most economical size for 
Orchard-houses. My houses are at tlie usual angle of -15*^, 
and no damage or breakage from snow or frost has ever 
occurred. I am quite sure that the last severe winter did 
not cost me ten squares of glass. 
In gardens where tlie site is suitable, and no convenient wall 
exists to ])hice a lean-to house against, sjnin-roofed houses 
are certainly the most agreeable. 1 have now a regular 
jog-trot way of building them of two widths. The large 
spau-i'oofed Orchard-house should he twenty feet wide. 
Its sides five feet in height, cither of hoards, with shutters 
on hinges, or brick three feet high, nine-inch work, and 
swinging sashes on pivots two feet; its height to the apex of 
roof ten feet. 
Along its centre it should have a row of light iron pillars 
to support the roof (tw'o inch gas pipes uiisw'er well), eight 
feet apart; its rafters should be four-and-a-half by one-aiid- 
a-lialf inches, tw'enty iiiohos apart; tlie glass 10 oz. sheet. 
A house of tills width and construction is light and airy, 
and forms a most agreeable promenade when the trees are 
in blossom or in fruit. .If made of a greater width, the 
trees in the centre arc liable to suffer from imperfect ven¬ 
tilation. I should add, that the borders should he eighteen 
inches in height. 
Tlie small span-roofed Orchard house should ho twelve 
feet wide. Its sides four feet high, either of brick two feet 
six inches, and swinging sashes eighteen inclics, or of 
hoards, with a shutter on bingos, one foot wide. Baflers 
and glass should he of the same dimensions as given above. 
A path two-and a-half feet wide along the centre (it may be 
sunk five or six inches if tlie soil be dry), and a border on 
each side raised about a foot, completes tlie structure. The 
trees form a beautiful and most iiilorestiug avenue, and arc 
always under the eye. A liouse of tliis size is not so 
agreeable for a iironienade as the large house, as you cannot 
walk round your trees ; you must go and return by the same 
path; still, it will be found a most agreeable and useful 
adjunct to the villa garden.'—Tuos. Bivers. 
