. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 228 CASSELL'S POPULAE GAEDENING Fig. 76, p. 326, Vol. III., -will te of great service when the fruit is ripe, and a constant circulation of dry, warm air is absolutely necessary. Although the trees will stand a great amount of dry sun-heat after the wood is ripe, and fixed roofs are not injurious, portable lights running in rafters are to he preferred both for benefit, convenience, and appear- ance. It is easy to imagine a tree started in December, and ripening its wood in July, with its foliage at all times subject to spider, cut off from the refreshi
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 228 CASSELL'S POPULAE GAEDENING Fig. 76, p. 326, Vol. III., -will te of great service when the fruit is ripe, and a constant circulation of dry, warm air is absolutely necessary. Although the trees will stand a great amount of dry sun-heat after the wood is ripe, and fixed roofs are not injurious, portable lights running in rafters are to he preferred both for benefit, convenience, and appear- ance. It is easy to imagine a tree started in December, and ripening its wood in July, with its foliage at all times subject to spider, cut off from the refreshing dew and summer rain, and then to turn to another from which a great portion of the lights can be removed in a few minutes when warm showers are falling through August and September, and to arrive at the conclusion that the sash and rafter roof is to be preferred. The unequal span-roofed house, with its longest slope facing the south, is well adapted for the extension training of trees, which may be planted on the north side in a narrow border, and nailed to the back wall until the shoots reach the roof, whose they take to the trellis leading to the ridge, thence downwards tcTthe front, the check to the sap at the apex of the trellis produc- ing a, most fruitful growth of young spur-like pieces of wood, which require very little pinching, and, as a consequence, become perpetual-bearing. During the time the gi'owths are covering the south trellis, the front pit is a suitable place for pot-trees, which can be plunged or placed on the surface of the bed, where, if allowed to root through the bottoms of the pots into sods of turf, such kindj3 as Brown Turkey, and Osborne's Prolific, produce quantities of fruit throughout the season. A house of this kind was planted at Eastnor twenty years ago; the main stems have now covered the back wall with roots, where they are regularly supplied with diluted liquid, and the crops of fine large Pigs are enormous. The trellis has long since be
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