CH. 8.] PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 



duction to a certainty, year by year, flued 

 walls are indifpenfably neceilary ; and 

 where a fine garden is building, the extra 

 expence in flueing two or three hundred 

 feet of the beft expo fed walls, will be found 

 but trifling. If built according to the de- 

 fign, (See Fig. I. Plate IV.) and worked 

 according to my method as under, the an- 

 nual expence will alib be trifling. 



For fecuring the crop in the Spring, by 

 defending the bloom till fairly fet, from 

 the frofty winds which fo frequently hap- 

 pen at that feafon, canvas fcreens or old 

 nets are neceflary } but the canvas is far 

 preferable, and in the end, little more ex- 

 penfive than the nets. There is a kind of 

 thin canvas called Scrim or Ofnaburgh, 

 which anfwers very well, and is fold at 

 about ninepence the fquare yard. 



But for the flued wall at Wemyfs Caftle, 

 I had canvas wove on purpofe, much thin- 

 ner than any other I have feen, which now, 

 by the a&ion of the weather, is rendered 

 as 'fine as gauze in comparifon j and which, 

 in 1790, coft but eightpence a yard. As 

 much as covers a wall two hundred feet 

 long and fourteen high, coft only about 



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