CnAi'. XXV.] IMPLEMENTS USED IX FRENCH GARDENS. 447 



walls. It will save mncli labour, and make walls or permanent 

 trellises for fruit-growing far more agreeable to the eye and useful 

 to the cultivator than ever they were before. There are various 



Key Of Raidisicur. 



forms which need hardly be described, as they are so well shown 

 in the accompanying cuts. The first is a reduced figure of one 

 about three inches long. The engraver has placed it in the best 

 position to show its 

 structure. The wire 

 that passes in through 

 one end is slipped 

 through a hole in the 

 axle ; the other end is 

 attached to the tongue, as shown in the engraving, and then by 

 the aid of a key, placed on the square end of the axle, the whole 

 is wound much as a violin-string is wound round its peg. The 



first form figured is 



CoUignons Raidisscur. 



Side V'iew of CoUignon's RaidUse 



M^ '1;^^^ ^®^y much used in 



j'^J i^ — " ^^^® ^®^^ gardens, and 



seems to do its work 



effectively. The next 



liaidisseur here figured is that invented by M. Collignon and 



recommended by M. Du Breuil. It does not differ much from 



the preceding. D shows the point of insertion of the wire that 



has to be tightened; B the 



fastening of the other end of 



the wire ; and A the head on 



which the key is placed. The 



foregoing kinds are, like the 



wire, galvanised. The best 



of these tighteners cost but a 



few pence ; but even if they 



were not cheap, it would still 



in view of the jrreat savin'' thi 



I hoiiicry Raidisseiii 



profitable to employ them, 

 L'fl'ect, by allowing the use 



