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two or more hoops, and laths, if staves are too heavy. 

 This will answer for Tomatoes, Raspberries, and various 

 other plants. A more permanent tomato trellis is shown 

 in figure 194, in which slats are supported by A shaped 

 uprights. If put together with screws, such a trellis 

 may be carefully put away in the fall and made to last 

 several years. A rustic trellis, like that in figure 195, 

 is often useful in the flower garden, or it may serve, 

 when covered with climbers, to divide the flower from 

 the vegetable garden. It is made of sticks of cedar or 

 other durable wood, set as shown in the engraving, and 



Fig. 195. 



tied, where the bars across one another, with strong 

 tarred twine. With these examples as suggestions, one 

 will find no difficulty in making more elaborate supports 

 and with other materials. 



THE WHITE'S TRELLIS (figure 196), before referred to 

 in other parts of this work, I consider to be one of the most 

 valuable of garden requisites. It is of simple construc- 

 tion, so that it can be sold very cheaply, the price being 

 from six to fifteen cents per running foot, according to 

 size. Its original design was, that it should be used as 

 a substitute for the ordinary pea brush or pea stakes; and 



