SHELTERS FOR PLANTS. 



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SHELTERS FOR PLANTS. 



inches, is. 9cl. ; 6 inches, 2s. ; 6 inches, 

 2s. 6d. ; and 7 inches, 2s. The amateur 

 gardener will find an old pair of sheep 

 shears almost as useful in a garden, and as 

 they may be bought very cheap at the 



nothing better than a line of hurdles, 

 whether of wood or iron it matters little, 

 with brush wood, gorse, or even light faggot 

 wood, interlaced vertically between the 

 horizontal bars. This affords a rough but 



marine store dealer's sometimes, he should very effective shelter, and, if no hurdles 



FIG. I. WATTLE HURDLE. 



never pass by an opportunity of picking ; are at command, it is easy enough to knock 

 up a pair. They can be sharpened with a ; up a few frames of rough wood for the pur- 

 rough whetstone. 



pose by nailing to three or more uprights, 

 according to the length, transverse bars, at 

 a distance apart ranging from 6 inches to 

 9 inches, or thereabouts. When the posi- 

 means of protecting plants growing in the ' tion of the garden is such that shelters of 



Shelters for Growing Plants. 



Under this heading we may consider the 



FIG. 2 FRAME FOR WATTLE. 



open ground temporarily from the adverse this kind may be frequently desirable, it is 



influence of frost and cutting winds from any as well to give a permanent character to 



particular quarter, and simple structures them by constructing wattle hurdles, which 



and appliances for the protection of cold may be put away under shelter in some 



frames, etc., and their inmates. For ob- out-of-the-way corner or spot fitted for the 



taining protection against winds there is purpose, and brought out for use as occasion 



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