The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 405
rragon, and other herbs, are grown orforced much in the same way as they are in British gardens.Purslane is grown in the melon beds, on the spare spaces attop and bottom, and removed as the vines extend to thesespaces. The Pits for forcing Peaches, Apricots, Vines, and Rasp-berries {figs. 138. and… … behind, and about 4 ft. in front; the bottom of the pit being on a slope, so that theback wall is between 1and 2 ft. higher than thefront wall. A space infront of the pit {fig. 138.a) is divided from it by aboarded partition {b), andis destined for containingthe mould in which thevines and peaches…
