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THE PAEKS AND GAEDENS OP PAEIS. [Chap. XXI. 



garden admirable culture everywhere prevails. The walls are 

 white — they are whitewashed every year with a view to the 

 extermination of insects, — and the trees are of the brightest and 



healthiest green. At in- 

 l!i tervals the knuckle-end of 



the leg-bone of a sheep 

 projects from the wall a 

 couple of inches only, and 

 at about a foot and a half 

 from the top of the wall. 

 These are placed so as to 

 firmly fix the temporary 

 coping in spring. The boards 

 I or neat frames of straw are 

 -s placed beneath the perma- 

 I nent coping and on the 



Small Wooden 

 Coping used to 

 protect yo7ing 

 Peach-trees in 

 Spring. 



supports. The space be- 

 tween coping and brackets 

 being very narrow, there 

 is considerable support 

 afforded to the temporary 

 covering at the back part ; by attaching an eye to its under- 

 surface, and firmly tying it with a twig of osier, wire, or strong 

 twine, to the bone projecting firmly below, it is secured from 



