. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. plained, are the larger, and wider houses, they may be curvilinear as in Fig. 2, an arrangement which some think gives a variety of tem- perature and position to the trees, and con- sequently a bet- ter succession of fruit; but this is doubtful, as all the trees are further away from the glass, and in conse- quence not so favourably placed for ripen- ing and colour- ing the fruit, without which good flavour cannot be ex- pected. Then again, the lower half of the trees on the back wall being shaded, or alto- gether too far away from solar influence, the
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. plained, are the larger, and wider houses, they may be curvilinear as in Fig. 2, an arrangement which some think gives a variety of tem- perature and position to the trees, and con- sequently a bet- ter succession of fruit; but this is doubtful, as all the trees are further away from the glass, and in conse- quence not so favourably placed for ripen- ing and colour- ing the fruit, without which good flavour cannot be ex- pected. Then again, the lower half of the trees on the back wall being shaded, or alto- gether too far away from solar influence, the number of square feet fully exposed to the sun is only a trifle in excess of that obtained from the parallel trellis as in Fig. 1. Heating.—Having in preceding papers directed attention to the importance of putting in good boilers and plenty of hot-water pipes, it is unnecessary to again revert to this subject except to state that the pipes should be placed near the front and back walls, and in sufficient quantity to keep up the 75 necessary degree of heat, without, as a rule, making them very hot; and they should be plentifully fur- nished with evaporating - pans for throwing off atmospheric moisture from the time the houses are started until the fruit is nearly ripe. In the house (Fig. 1) where forcing is commenced in November or December, three four-inch pipes along the front, ends, and back will not be too many; while in Fig. 2, which is wider, four pipes along the front and ends, and two four feet from the back wall, will be sufficient. Fig. 3.—Span-roofed House, a, Border; b, border covered with gravel; oo, Fig. 4.—Span-roofed House. Path.; b, border; c, drainage ; oo, pipes The Span- roof (Fig. 3). — Although Peaches can be retarded through their early stages, in lean-to houses, so as to have them ripe in Sept ember, there are many situations in which the span- roof can be con- veniently built for giving fruit through July, August, and SeptemBer. Such ho
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