26 THE BOOK OF THE PEACH. 



hooks formed at right angles at each end. These 

 are to be closed in with a pair of pincers when 

 attached to the wires and screw-eyes, thereby com- 

 pleting a most efficient "hinge-trellis," which, in 

 many ways, is preferable to the usual stiffly fixed 

 ones, and it also has cheapness and simplicity of 

 construction to recommend it. 



In the case of a span-roof peachery, I need hardly 

 remark that the trellis described above should be 

 fixed under both roofs in the manner indicated, the 

 top wire being fixed immediately under the apex at 

 the proper distance from the roof-glass. The top 

 ends of both sets of tubing should be flattened out 

 a little and then bolted together through the central 

 upright division bar between lintel and ridge, the 

 bolt being secured on the outside by a nut, a quarter- 

 inch by one inch plate, sufficiently long to extend a 

 couple of inches over lintel and end of ridge, having 

 been first placed over the bolt between the nut and 

 woodwork. This plate, being provided with four 

 counter-sunk screw-holes, to admit of its being 

 screw r ed to the ridge and lintel, will afford sufficient 

 support to the tubing to resist the strain necessarily 

 involved in tightening the top two or three wires. 

 The whole trellis should receive three coats of good 

 white-lead paint as soon as finished, or at least be- 

 fore the peach trees are trained thereto. 



