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A view, plan, and section of this frame {Jig. 21.) are given in 

 the Horticultural Transactions, and thus described : — 



12 3 4 are the four corners of the wooden frame, when joined together 

 and fixed upon the wall. 



5 5 are wooden facings fixed on the front edge of the sides of the frame, 

 for the reception of the screen within them. 



6, 1 1 i are similar facings on the top and bottom, but movable on hinges, 

 shown at ' ' ', for the convenience of putting the rings of the screen 

 upon the iron wires, 9 9 9 9. 



7 7 7 7 are the breadths of the screen, strengthened by slips of tape 2 2 

 sewed upon the seams. 



8 8 are two upright pieces of wood (to which the screen is nailed), which 

 slide under the facings 5 5, and are secured by the hasps 3333. 



9 9 9 9 are the iron wires on which the screen slides by means of rings. 

 4444 are thumb-screws for tightening the wires and preventing them 



from relaxing. 



5 5 5 5 are the rings upon the bottom wire. When the screen is adjusted, 

 the lower facing 1 1 1 is folded up to 10 10, and fastened with square but- 

 tons 6 6. 



11 11 11 11, the plan of the wall and the bottom of the frame, with a 

 semicircular hole cut in the latter, sufficiently large to receive the stem of 

 the tree, and thus to permit the frame being fixed close to the wall. 



12 12 12 12, the section of a side of the frame and of the wall. 



13 13 are the top and bottom stops to keep the screw in its place. 



14 is a piece of cloth loosely suspended between the wall and the up- 

 right stake 15, to receive the fruit that falls off the tree. The stake 15 is 

 repeated at convenient distances in the frame. 



Mr. Dick's frame answered perfectly last summer in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society. 



Art. II. Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. Parti, 

 of Vol. IV. Edin. 8vo. pp. 272. 5 Plates and Wood-cuts. 8*. 



The Transactions of this Society have hitherto been pub- 

 lished in numbers; the present Part includes Numbers xiii 

 and xiv., and is more respectably got up than the preceding 

 volumes. The first hundred pages are occupied by lists of the 

 Society, accounts of premiums awarded from June, 1819, to 

 October, 1826, and a copy of the charter of incorporation of 

 the Society granted in October, 1824. The principal subjects 

 for which premiums were given for 1824, and to the present 

 time, will be found in the proper department in the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine. " Documents regarding the Experimental 

 Garden, with an engraved plan," is the next paper, for the 

 essence of which we refer to Gard. Mag. vol. i. p. 90. This 

 garden is to be formed and maintained, " 1. By subscriptions 

 for shares of twenty guineas each. 2. By charging every 



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