This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
In the garden of E. W. Harlock, at Ely, Cambridgeshire, is an orchard house deserving the above term, not so much on account of its architecture - it is very plainly built - as on account of its contents, for it is simply a span-roofed house, 100 feet long, something under 30 feet wide, and some 15 feet high, its sides of boards, with a ventilating shutter on hinges at each side, and no roof openings; in short, the same method of low side ventilation originated at Saw bridgeworth many years since, and found so successful there. It is the contents of Mr. Harlock's orchard house that make it remarkable, for it is a perfect forest of peach and nectarine trees, the like of which can not be found in Europe. The trees are all, or nearly all, pyramids, growing in large pots and tubs, varying in size from 20 to something under 30 inches; they are from 8 to 10 or more feet in height, and not pinched in closely, as is so necessary in small houses, but the shoots are encouraged to make a vigorous growth, and only occasionally pinched in, in summer, to make the trees symmetrical or to suppress excessive vigor - for the trees are well fed in summer by surface dressings and liquid manure applied judiciously.
The result of this sound culture is the utmost vigor and fruitfulness in the trees; and it is difficult at first sight to take in the idea that you see trees growing in pots standing on a hard floor, so that they can not root into the border. Many of these grand trees have borne from two to three pecks of peaches each, many of the later kinds are still in perfection, and all the fruit has been of the largest kind and finest quality. When it is brought to mind that a house of the dimensions given has and will produce some thirty or forty bushels of peaches, it seems strange that our market gardeners do not do likewise. - Gardeners' Chronicle.
 
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