. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. 298 THE FRUIT GARDEN. Fig. s.—Span-Roof Peach-House (In Section) upper back wall surface may be utilised, the front trellis should only be carried half up the rafter. The front trellis wires should be nearer the glass than the vine trellis, but generally it is best to have a " drum trellis " here with full space between it and the front to allow a free passage. The back wall should be wired about 6 inches clear, and the wires here, as well as in front, about 6 inches apart. Fig. 4 is a section of a lean-to peach-house with drum trellis,
. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. 298 THE FRUIT GARDEN. Fig. s.—Span-Roof Peach-House (In Section) upper back wall surface may be utilised, the front trellis should only be carried half up the rafter. The front trellis wires should be nearer the glass than the vine trellis, but generally it is best to have a " drum trellis " here with full space between it and the front to allow a free passage. The back wall should be wired about 6 inches clear, and the wires here, as well as in front, about 6 inches apart. Fig. 4 is a section of a lean-to peach-house with drum trellis, the width shown being 15 feet, and six rows of 4-inch pipes. When it is necessary to adopt the semi-span form for a peach-house, the north rafter should be short in order not to limit the wall space for the back trees. The span - roofed form of peach-house is frequently adopted, the aspect being, of course, north and south, with the lower section only wired on each side, or, better still, a curved trellis. Very good results have been obtained by having in a span peach-house screen cross trellising—that is, below each rafter, say 5 or 6 feet apai-t, a trellis from the front to the path, as illustrated in Fig. 5. Melon, Cucumber, and Tomato Houses. — Melon and cucumber houses are practically on the lines of the ordinary forcing-house, and may be anything from lo to 15 feet wide; 13 feet may be taken as a fair average, giving 3 feet for the passage, 4 feet for the bed each side, and allowing I foot for the side framework. Fig. 6 shows a section of this house, with side walls 3 feet high and 2J feet of glasswork, giving 5 J feet to the eaves. The roof should have a pitch of about 34 degs. The bed walls should be 2| feet above the floor level, and go down about 2 feet below so as to form a channel for pipes, which may be partly leaders for supplying a section of the house or may be altogether for surface Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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