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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 

 can 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, i.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 



