VI. LIST OP FRUITS. 



blossom, that is not sufficient of itself to give the frosts 

 the power of destruction. When frosts come without 

 rain or dews, they do very little harm to blossoms. 

 Therefore, the thing to be desired, is, something to keep 

 off the wet during the time that the blossom is becoming 

 a fruit. The best way of doing this is to have something 

 going out from the top of the wall to about a foot and a 

 half wide, which might remain day and night, until the 

 dangerous season were over. The thing recommended 

 by a very able and experienced French writer, M. DE 

 COMBLB, is, a board of that width, supported by posts at 

 convenient distances. These posts, however, besides 

 their unsightliness, I object to on account of the holes 

 that must be made for placing them in the ground. To 

 obviate this, and to cause the operation to be little trou- 

 blesome, I would, in the building of my wall, have, in 

 the row of bricks next to the top row, what the brick- 

 layers call a wooden brick, at suitable distances. In 

 these wooden bricks (to be made of the most durable 

 wood), might be holes for the purpose of admitting the 

 end of a stout piece of iron, about, perhaps, two feet long, 

 besides the part necessary to enter into the brick. When 

 the blooming season arrived, and just before the blossoms 

 began to burst, these pieces of iron would be put into 

 the holes in the bricks and there fastened by means easily 

 to be invented j upon these pieces of iron the boards 

 might be laid all along the wall -, the boards might be 

 i fastened down to the pieces of iron by holes made in the 

 ; former .to admit a small cord to fasten the former to the 

 : latter, and thus the whole would remain safe against the 

 power of the winds until the season arrived when the 

 fruit would be out of danger. The board might be 



