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every pint of oil before using, makes the paper more durable, 

 and gives it more transparency. 



Different methods may be adopted of fixing the frames 

 against the wall. Mr. Smith placed temporary rafters, with 

 the lower ends 2 ft. from the wall, and 4 in. in the ground ; 

 the top of the rafter made fast to a projecting board, in the 

 manner of a coping, at the top of the wall. The frames are 

 made secure to the rafters by short slips of wood nailed across 

 each rafter, so as to serve as buttons or caps for keeping down 

 the frames. It is to be observed, that, between these caps and 

 the rafter, there must be a space of sufficient depth to admit 

 of the frames being slipped up and down, for the purpose of 

 inspection or giving air. To close the triangular ends of the 

 spaces thus covered, triangular rafters are formed. The cost 

 of the frames, 5 ft. by 3 ft., is Ss. each ; their repair 3s. yearly 

 for oil and paper ; and the work is done in bad weather, 

 when the men cannot labour out of doors. 



The frames are put on when the blossoms are " pretty 

 well out," and kept on till the fruit is set and beginning to 

 swell. Mi\ Smith received the Society's silver medal for this 

 communication. We have no doubt of its perfect success ; 

 but we prefer protection by woollen netting, as not only 

 cheaper, when the repairs are taken into account, but in- 

 comparably more neat, and even elegant : we say elegant, 

 because the netting, and the manner in which it is fixed, have 

 nothing of that heavy, cumbrous, and at the same time make- 

 shift appearance, which wooden rafters stuck in the ground, 

 and soiled paper sashes, such as carpenters substitute for 

 glass windows when they are putting up new buildings, have 

 in a garden. The products of luxury and refinement are 

 not, in our opinion at least, wotth obtaining, unless they can 

 be attained by refined means. We should prefer purchasing 

 our pine-apples, peaches, and grapes in the market, or going 

 without them altogether, to growing them in wretched struc- 

 tures, among all manner of litter, disorder, and niggardliness. 

 We mean these observations to apply generally, and by no 

 means to Grangemuir more than to a thousand other places. 



The silver medal was awarded to Mr. Smith, for the intro- 

 duction of these oiled-paper frames. 



32. Notice of an improved Mode of glazing Hot-house Sashes. By 

 John Robison, Esq. Read June 7- 1827. 



The method proposed is that of cutting the panes into long 

 rhomboids, as invented by Mr. David Stuart, and adopted 

 by him in his patent hot-houses. (See Encyc. of Gard., 

 fig. 265. c.) 



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