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render it quite easy for anyone to push the sashes 
along without rollers. Moreover, I am not quite sure 
that the rollers would not offer an easy means for the 
winds to move the sashes when it would be undesirable. 
One wall bracket in four feet at the bottom will be 
enough, and one wall-hook within the same distance at 
the top will be enough with one screw on the top, and 
one in the outside, and but one screw in the bottom 
with the head countersunk and placed inside in the 
middle of the run. 
The sashes need not be opened if the ventilators at 
the top are opened every morning at nine o'clock 
during the flowering and setting of the fruit if the 
wind is cutting and cold, but they should be opened 
in the mild weather during the flowering of the trees. 
These sashes are very portable, being made light, and 
ean be utilised for other purposes besides the protection 
of Peaches or Plums on the walls during the months of 
February, March, and April, for they may then, if 
necessary, be taken down, and laid on pits or frames 
for ridge Cucumber or late Melon growing, or used as 
screens on frames or pits for such plant-growing as 
Primulas, Cinerarias, or seedling Calceolarias ; the pro- 
pagation of Geraniums, Cyclamens, &c., for they will 
not be required for the trees before February. Of course 
they may be continued on the wall till the Peaches 
are ripe, which would bring them on earlier and would 
be equal in effect to the cool orchard house. I know 
that Grapes can be produced nearly as early behind 
these sashes as they can be had in a late vinery, %.e. 
one without artificial heat. 
Forty feet run of these sashes will not cost more, 
runs and all, than 12/., and this, with only the difference 
