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Between eacli upright frame of glass, either canvas or hexagon netting — the 

 latter is preferable — is strained and secured so as to exclude insects. The 

 trees are thus protected from heavy rains, sheltered from chilling winds, and 

 yet exposed to every favourable influence of weather that may occur, while there 

 is not the daily trouble that attends glass-faced walls of giving air, nor is any time 

 talcen iip, as when canvas screens are used, in daily rolling and unrolhng them. 



Another advantage belongs to this plan of wall-covering. It can remain with- 

 out injury to the trees during the summer and autumn, and while the protec- 

 tion it gives is calculated to improve the fruit beneath it, a perfect safeguard 

 exists in it against the attacks of birds and wasps. The application of an inven- 

 tion like this to Peach and Apricot walls will greatly increase, if it does not 

 ensure, our chances of crops of these fruits, and as a means of preserving late 

 Plums and Cherries from the effects of autumnal storms, its use cannot be too 

 strongly recommended. — William Ingram, Belvoir. 



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fllERE is no subject that is of more real importance to the Fruit-growing 

 __ ' and Fruit-eating public than that of procuring varieties of Fruit that will 

 come early to maturity, without the aid of much artificial heat. This is 

 more especially so, if coal, the prime agent in producing an artificial 

 climate, is to remain at anything like its present high price ; and I fear there 

 is but little prospect of its ever being cheap again. 



