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TREE CELANDINE. See BOCCOKZA. espalier, five feet is generally ot' sufficient he 



TREE GERMANDER. See Tbuckium. as, if much higher, the winds, havi 

 TREE MALLOW. See Lavateua. power, will loosen and displace them. 



TREE PRIMROSE. See Obnothbra. Where walls are buill with large stones with 



TREFOIL, SHRUBBY.. See Ptblia. the joints irregular and far asunder, and which 



TREFOIL, SNAIL. See Medicaoo. do not afford opportunities, like brick walls 



TREILLAGE, a sort of rail work consisting nailing properly in the regularity which is n> 

 of ranges of light posts and ratlings, for the pur- quired, a neat Treillage is sometimes uniformly 

 pose or training espalier trees to, and occasion- erected all along close to the will, to train 

 ally for wall tree3, where the walls do not admit nail or tie the branches to in a regular manner. 

 of nailing the branches immediately against it ; These may be made of coarse pied 

 likewise tor training wall-trees in forcing frames, battens, railings, &c. or of such as are wrou 

 &c. They are made in different ways, for use in a neat manner, according to the convenience 

 and ornament, as well as of different dimen- and taste of the person who Das them, 

 sions, from four or five to six or seven feet In frames and stoves, where wall trees are 

 h'gh- intending for forcing, as they are planted both 



For common espalier fruit-trees in the open against the back wall, and occasionally in a de- 

 ground, they are absolutely necessary, and may tached low range forward towards the middle or 

 either be formed of common stakes and rails front space, Treillage s are indispensably neccs- 

 nailed together, or of regular joinery work. sary upon which to arrange the branches of the 



The cheapest and the easiest, and soonest trees in a regular expansion, not to train them 

 made Treillage for common espalier trees, is immediately clone to the wall of the flues of that 

 that formed with any kind of straight poles or department, but detached several inches, and 

 stakes of underwood, as cut in the coppices, funned with light neat squared Upright battens 

 being then cut into proper lengths, and driven and small horizontal rails, uniformly framed 

 into the ground in a range at foot distances, all together in a light open manner. 

 of an equal height, and then railed along the FRE1LLIS, a term sometimes employed to 



top with the same kind of poles, to preserve the signify the same as tie llatre. See Ti. ullage. 

 whole straight and firm in a regular position. TRILLIUM, a genus furnishing plants of 

 See Espalier. the low, tubeious-rooted, flowery, perennial 



And to render these still stronger, two or k.nd. 

 three horizontal ranges of rods may be nailed It belongs to the class and order Hexandr'm 

 along the back part of the uprights, a fool or Trigynia, and ranks in the natural order oi' Sar- 

 eighteen inches asunder. menlacete. 



The more elegant and ornamental Treillages The characters are : that the calyx is a three- 

 are formed with regularly squared posts and rails leaved perianth, spreading: leaflets ovate, i 

 of hard timber, neatly planed and framed to- raancnt : the corolla has three petals, suhov.ve 

 gether; having for this purpose deal or oak a little bigger than the calyx : the stamina have 

 posts, uniformlv worked two or three inches six awl shaped filaments, shorter than the ca- 

 square; but if the main posts are of oak, it will lyx, erect: anthers terminating, oblong, length 

 be of advantage in respect to strength and durabi- of the filaments: the pistillom i-> a roundish 

 litv, fixing the main posts in the ground ten or germ: styles filiform, recurved: stigmas simple: 

 tu eh e feet asunder, with smaller ones between, the pericarpiutn is a roundish berry, three-celled : 

 ranging the horizontal rai ings from post to post the seeds many, roundish. 



in three or more ranges; the first about a foot The species are: I. T. cernuum, Drooping 

 from the bottom, a second at lop, and one or Trillium; '-'. V. erectum, Upright Trillium; 

 two along the middle space, and, if convenient, 3. T. sessile, Sessile-flowered Trillium. 

 one between each of the intermediate space-; The first has a perennial tube ions root : the 



then fixing thin slips of lath, or the like, upright stem is erect, a foot high, simple, round, slightly 

 to the horizontal railing as far as the branches Striated, smooth : the leaves three together, ter- 

 of the trees extend, ten inches or afoot asunder; minating, on short footstalks, spreading, ihom- 

 and painting the whole white in oil colour, to boidal, pointed, entire, veiny, , paler 



render it more ornamental and durable. In beneath: the flowers solitary, among the leaves, 

 traininff the trees, their branches are tied both without bractes : the flower-stalk round, a little 

 to the railing of ihe Treillage, and the upright waved, smooth. It is a native ot North Ame- 

 laths, according as they extend in length on riea. 

 each side. In either ot the above cases, for an The second species has a taller stalk; the three 



