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FRUIT AND ITS CULTIVATION. 



a piece of rope to each, and run the opposite end through 

 the ring in the top of the hole. This will enable the blind 

 to be drawn up at night and lowered by day. Scrim 

 canvas or tiffany are suitable materials to use for the 

 blinds. 



Fish Netting. Old fish-netting or tanned whipcord- 

 netting also forms good protective material, but is not so 

 frost proof as the combined coping and canvas, or the 

 canvas alone. Either should be used of double thickness, 

 and supported by poles placed 6ft. apart. This may be 

 left on day and night until the fruit has set. 



Fig-. 134. A FRUIT PROTECTOR FOR WALLS. 



Consists of a glass coping- with provision for suspending a tiffany blind in 

 front on cold days and frosty nights. 



Trees in the Open. It is rarely necessary to protect 

 trees in the open garden unless the weather is likely to be 

 very severe at the time of blossoming. Even then only 

 dwarf, pyramid, or espalier trees can be conveniently pro- 

 tected. For bushes or pyramids, place stakes about 2ft. 

 apart, ift. from the branches, and a trifle higher than the 

 tree. Around these fix scrim canvas or tiffany, leaving 

 the top exposed. For espaliers, fix stakes the height of 

 the trees, 3ft. apart and ift. from the sides, along both 

 sides, and secure canvas thereto during the flowering 



