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affixing securely to wall-plate and end rafter with large 

 wood screws, two screws at each end. The quarter- 

 inch edge of irons should rest perpendicularly 

 against the tubings, thereby enabling them to with- 

 stand the great strain necessarily incurred in 

 tightening the individual wires, which should consist 

 of No. 14 (galvanised). Having marked with a piece 

 of chalk the position which each of the wires is to 

 occupy, at six inches apart, on the tubings, take the 

 end of each wire once round the tubing, and. twist 

 it three or four times round the wire, which, like the 

 several forming the trellis, will be stretched the full 

 length of the house in process _of construction. 

 The wires should be cut about twelve inches longer 

 than the house, to enable the different ends to be 

 taken through the central eye and round the wheel 

 in each radisseur, connected to tubing at the other 

 end of the house by a couple of rounds of the same 

 size wire, and then tightened with the key to the 

 desired degree of tightness. This done, insert a 

 series of small .screw-eyes at twelve inches apart in 

 each rafter, immediately above each line of wire, the 

 screw-eyes in each successive rafter being placed 

 anglewise to those in the preceding one, so that the 

 weight of crop may be distributed equally over the 

 whole trellis of roof of peach-house, when the latter 

 is connected with the different screw-eyes by means 

 of short lengths of wire of the same gauge with 



