PEOTECTION. 39 



linen. Bunting may often be bought cheap in the 

 form of old flags, and it does very well. 



Erigi domo is a material which has been much 

 advertised for protecting trees from the late frosts^ 

 and from sun and wind when necessary. It is a mixture 

 of hair and wool, a non-conductor of heat, thin and 

 light. It may be bought at Is. 9d. per yard, two 

 yards wide ; 2s. Sd. three yards wide ; and 3s. 6d. four 

 yards wide. A kind of thin canvas also is made on 

 purpose for covering trees, which may be bought for 

 5d. per square yard, and the same length will last with 

 care for seven years. 



The protecting curtains, if I may so call them, should 

 be fixed temporarily along the top of the wall, or hung 

 on nails there, by means of little rings or loops along 

 the upper edge. .Poles fixed against the wall on a slant, 

 with the bottom about three feet from the wall, will 

 keep the curtain at a safe distance from the bloom. 



Another apparatus for fixing the curtains is to fix 

 poles on a slant, three feet from the wall at the 

 bottom, and close against it at the top. Two feet 

 from the bottom pegs are fixed in the poles, and 

 stand out nine inches in front ; the curtain is fixed on 

 these pegs, and lies upon them, when it is not in use to 

 cover the trees, and it is drawn up and let down by 

 means of cords fixed to the top edge, and a ring and 

 staple to the top of each pole. 



A wide, overhanging coping to a wall offers much 

 protection to the trees trained upon it. 



Dwarf trees can easily be protected by means of a 

 fixed framework round them, set in for the purpose. 

 Fix four poles of exactly equal height, one at each 

 corner of the tree, and a few inches taller than it, either 

 with or without cross-bars, and fix over the top a square 

 of grey calico, or any other cheap material. A piece of 

 the same grey calico, or other material, may be tacked 

 round the sides, leaving a vacancy at top and bottom for 

 the free circulation of air. 



Many other things may bo used to protect dwarf 

 trees. Flat branching little boughs, like pea sticks, or 



