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FRUIT CYLINDERS. 



Diameter 5 x 5 x -7854 = 19-635 



Diameter 10 x 10 x -7854 = 78-54 



[19-635 x 4 = 78-54.] 



Diameter 10 is only twice diameter 5, but area 78 - 54 is four 

 times area 19-635, showing an economy of space and materials 

 equal to cent, per cent, by using trellises of 5 feet diameter 

 instead of 10. 



Here it will be seen that a trellis or cylinder of circumference 

 double does not take just double the area, but no more than four 

 times the area to stand upon, and four times the amount of 

 faggots to fill it. I have borrowed the evergreen foliage of the 

 gorse plant, and built a column of it within the circular iron 

 trellis alluded to, in order that the early blossoms of our fruit-trees 

 may not any longer be borne upon naked twigs. 



Trellises similar to the foregoing existed in the gardens of the 

 late Sir John Stanley, in Cheshire, in 1837, when I was gardener 

 tbere, and the only alteration that I have made in my late respected 

 employer's plan is the adding a body to his skeleton trellis. 



I have shown in the accompanying plau how different lengths 



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Ground Level 



Fig 2. 



ELEVATION OF FRUIT CYLINDER, WITH THE IRON UPRIGHT AND RODS. 

 Scale J inch to 1 foot. Scale J inch to 1 foot. 



may be accommodated with one or more cylinders, and I may 



* Fig. 2. Elevation of a fruit cylinder whose circumference is 15 feet 

 and height 5 feet, showing 5 wires and 5 tiers of fruit-bearing shoots, 

 1 foot apart. 



