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thoroughly saturated with blue vitriol before being used. This is 

 a cumbrous and bad plan, the kind of fruit-t jllises employed at 

 Versailles being neater, more durable, and ir every way superior. 



Double Espalier with a row of Cordons on each side, shnving mode of protecting the whole in spring 

 {Du Brenil',. A, wooden support. B, B, supports for protection. F, F, wide temporary copings 

 of neat straw mats, luld by iron brackets. //, //, galvanised wires fixed at E, E, descending 

 at internals and fixed in tlte iron posts, L, L, and to stones in the ground. G. one of the Hues 

 running atross tlie espaliers from the walls of the garden. 



In the garden devoted to teaching purposes only, all the lines 

 which the branches of the wall trees are to occupy when fully 

 formed are indicated by small rattan canes — accurately placed, so 



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