. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 218 THE COTTAGE GARDENER. will have glass structui-es of some kind, and, as Mr. Rivers, the truly excellent nurseiyman at Sawhridge- worth, said to us the other day, '^ Every cottager's wife will take in her hasket to market a few peaches and ; Xor wiU Hamhm-gh, and other high class grapes, nor pine apples, he unknown to those baskets in om- southern counties. Tills is no wild vision, for the cultivation of such plants is simple in the extreme ; the system of dwai-fing renders very small structures capable of holding many trees; gl
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 218 THE COTTAGE GARDENER. will have glass structui-es of some kind, and, as Mr. Rivers, the truly excellent nurseiyman at Sawhridge- worth, said to us the other day, '^ Every cottager's wife will take in her hasket to market a few peaches and ; Xor wiU Hamhm-gh, and other high class grapes, nor pine apples, he unknown to those baskets in om- southern counties. Tills is no wild vision, for the cultivation of such plants is simple in the extreme ; the system of dwai-fing renders very small structures capable of holding many trees; glass is now extraordinarily cheap ; and houses for the cultivation of fniit are, in our days, no longer the elaborate, expensive stnic- tures which they were formerly. We shall have to give some curious particulars upon all these points; hut to-day we will confine oiu'selves to the cheapest forips of glass shelters, or what Mr. Maund, more than five years ago, very aptly tei-med " The Partial Protection ; There is no magic in this, nor in any other system of fruit-tree protection, for it is all founded upon plain facts, which the boy who cannot understand is not fit to dr-ive even a plough team. In cm- vari- able cliniate, when a bright sunny spring day is so often succeeded by frost and ice at night, it is neces- sary, to insure a crop of fruit from apricot, gi-eeu- gage, peach, and nectarine trees, then in blossom upon our walls and trellises, that their flowers shall be protected from those fi-osts. This may be done by screens formed of the twigs of evergi-eeus, nets, &c., but then these must be removed during the day, if warm and sunny, or the blossom wiU faU from the want of that heat and light combined, so essential for perfecting the pollen, and for seciiring impregna- tion, or " the setting of the ; Now, a screen of good glass not only shelters by night, but increases the day temperature in wliich the ti-ees are kept; and, as it admit
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