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INSTRUMENTS USED IN HORTICULTURE. 



implement. The foregoing kinds are galvanized, just like the wire. 



That shown by fig. 50 is a very simple one, not galvanized, which 

 _,. was much used in the 



fruit garden of the 

 Paris Exhibition. This 

 last form is so simple 

 that it can be readily and 



Side view of Collignon's raidisseur. chea P^ Produced in 



any of our manufactur- 

 ing tcwns. The best of these tighteners cost but a few pence ; and 

 if it \\ ere not so, it would still be profitable to employ them, in 

 consequence of the great saving they effect, by enabling us to 



Fig. 50. 



Raidisseur used in the garden of the Exhibition q/"1867. 



use a very thin wire, which is quite as efficient and infinitely neater 

 than the ponderous ones now generally employed by us, wherever the 

 nail and shred have given way to some costly system of wiring. 



" Since writing the foregoing, I have found a much-improved and 

 very simple raidisseur in use at Thomery. Fig. 51 represents its 

 actual size. It is simply a little piece of cast-iron costing little more 

 than a garden nail so small that its presence on wall or trellis does 

 not look awkward, as in the case of some of the larger kinds and very 

 effective. I never met with it except in the garden of M. Rose-Char- 

 meux at Thomery. The walls there are very neatly wired by its help, 

 and it is equally useful for espaliers. I have indeed never visited a 

 garden in which the walls and trellises were so neatly done, and all 

 by means of this simple strainer and the galvanized wire. Fig. 51 

 shows the wire strained tight, and is a little more than half the size I 

 recommend. Messrs. J. B. Brown and Co., of 90, Cannon-street, have 

 at my request cast a great number of these, and can supply them in 

 any quantity and at a very low rate. They are made of malleable 

 cast-iron, and are galvanized. The edges of the division in the head 

 of this little implement being sharp, those of the specimen I brought 

 from France were filed to prevent them cutting the wire in the strain- 

 ing ; but any danger from this source is quite obviated by allowing 

 the wire to be loose enough to permit of one coil being wound 



