14 Wiring Walls for training Trees. 



through the holes of these the wire is drawn, and.fixed at the 

 extreme ends. 



Part of a wall is wired in the above manner, in these gar- 

 dens ; the good effects are obvious, and the appearance is very 

 neat. I am, dear Sir, &c. 



Thomas Ingram. 



Frogmore Gardens, Dec. 11. 1826. 



In a late visit to Frogmore Gardens, we inspected the wall 

 to which Mr. Ingram alludes, and fully concur in his recom- 

 mendation of the plan. C. Holford, Esq. has employed wire 

 for the same purpose, but placed perpendicularly. [Encyc. of 

 Gard.§1575.) We have 

 also seen it on the open 

 wall, in the garden of Wil- 

 liam Strutt, Esq. at Derby, 

 applied in semicircles 

 (fg. 11.) ; and on the 

 back wall of the vinery 

 of Joseph Strutt, Esq. 

 of the same place. In 

 the latter instance, an- 

 nealed wire is used, and a wrinkle is left at the extreme ends 

 of each length of wire to allow for contraction and expansion. 

 Copper wire is generally preferred, as being less liable to 

 rust, for training peach trees, which require so frequently to be 

 unnailed and refixed. Wiring of walls appears a very desirable 

 practice. Where treesare trained horizontally, such as the pear, 

 plum, cherry, &c, it becomes less necessary, especially if the 

 precaution is taken of boiling the cast-iron nails in oil (a practice 

 first introduced, we believe, by William Atkinson, Esq.) before 

 they are used, to prevent their rusting ; and, in drawing them, 

 to begin by a pop with the hammer on the head of the nail, to 

 lessen its adhesion to the mortar, &c. In Germany it is a very 

 common practice to drive in the nails, and either run lines of 

 cord from nail to nail in the manner of Mr. Ingram's wires, 

 or tie the shoots to the nails with bass, and when the shoots re- 

 quire to be loosened, or altered in position, the nails are not 

 drawn, but the shoots untied and replaced by means of the 

 fixed nails,' and probably one or two in addition. This prac- 

 tice — leaving the nails as fixtures, — we certainly think, de- 

 serves imitation in this country. The trees look a great deal 

 neater when newly trained, and decaying strings of bass are 

 much less unsightly than taylor-looking, ragged, rotting, black 

 and red lists. — Cond. 



