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the heat of summer, owe their merit to abundant watering and a 

 very rich light soil. Indeed, they sow them on beds nearly com- 

 posed of well rotted manure. 



ATTACHING WIRE TO GARDEN-WALLS, &c. If there be any 

 one practice of French horticulturists more worthy than another 

 of special recommendation to the English fruit-grower, it is 

 their improved way of placing wires over walls or in any 

 position in which it may be desired to neatly train fruit trees. 

 Than our own mode of erecting espaliers, or wiring walls, nothing 



FIG. 77 . 



can be more hideous. So many have been the failures in British 

 gardens as regards the placing on walls of the wire to which to 

 affix the trees, that it has been given up as useless and too expen- 

 sive, and many have said that the old-fashioned shred and nail are 

 the best things. But there is a very much better and sounder way, 

 and I am completely converted as to the value of the French mode 

 of wiring a wall, of which Fig. 77 is an illustration. In the first 

 instance, several strong iron spikes are driven into the wall at the 

 ends in the right angle formed by two walls, and then rough nails, 

 or rather hooks, are driven into the wall in straight lines by a mason, 



