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exactly in the line of direction in which the wire is wanted to pass. 

 The wires are placed at about ten inches apart on the walls, and the 

 little hooks for their support, also galvanized, are placed at about 

 ten feet apart along each wire. The wires are made as straight as 

 a needle and as tight as a drum, by being strained with the 

 raidisseur. Through the hooks the wire is to pass for its support, 

 and of course it is necessary to have those lines of hooks quite 

 straight, a thing which a mason can readily arrange. The wire 

 about as thick as strong twine is passed through the little hooks, 

 fastened at both ends of the wall, into the strong iron nails, and then 

 made as tight and firm as can be desired by the tiny rack-wheel of 

 the tightener. These little tighteners being placed one over 

 another, or nearly so, in vertical lines, and at great distances apart, 

 they are not noticeable on the wall. The wires remain at about the 

 distance of half an inch or three quarters from the wall. If we 

 consider the expense of the shreds and nails, the procuring and 

 cutting of the former, the destroying of the surface of the walls by 

 the nails, and the leaving of numerous holes for vermin to take 

 refuge in, the great annual labour of nailing, the miserable work it 

 is for men in our cold winters and springs, it will be freely ad- 

 mitted that a change is wanted badly. The system of wiring a wall 

 above described is simple, cheap, almost everlasting, and excellent 

 in every particular ; and it must ere many years elapse be nearly 

 universally adopted in our fruit gardens. A man may do as much 

 work in one day along a wall wired thus as he could in six with the 

 old nail and shred. As to galvanized wire having an injurious 

 effect on the fruit trees trained on, it is simply nonsense ; I will not 

 therefore waste my space and the intelligent reader's time by dis- 

 cussing it. That is the only thing that can be said against this 

 beautiful system of wiring. Given a concrete wall as described 

 elsewhere in this book, smoothly plastered and wired thus, what 

 fruit trees could be in a more excellent position than those upon it ? 

 The temporary coping taken off after all danger from frost was 

 past, every leaf would be under the refreshing influence of the 

 summer rains, all the advantages of walls as regards heat would be 



