Booth's Wire Trellis for Espaliers. 



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As it answers its purpose extremely well, 

 and may probably be useful to others, I ,, 

 have great pleasure in supplying you 

 with the accompanying sketch {JigS' 1. 

 and 3.) and description of it. It consists 

 of two flat pieces of iron {Jig, 3. a a), 

 21 in. long, 1^ in. wide, and half an inch 

 thick, having a couple of holes for the 

 screws (c c), and a groove {b b) across 

 the middle of each, nearly deep enough 

 to receive the thickness of the wire. Two 

 round claws [dd), 4 in. long, with a joint 

 at {f) and a hole (c c) at the extremity 

 of each, which is flattened for the pur- 

 pose, are curved in such a manner that 

 one of the ends may be screwed on the 

 upper side, and the other on the lower 

 side, of the two flat pieces, and by means 

 of an eye and swivel, it can then be at- 

 tached to the hook {/^) of the instrument 

 shown in fig. 151. in Vol. XV, p. 632. 

 The annexed sketch [fig. L), representing 

 the whole when screwed on the wire, will, 

 however, convey a much better idea of 

 the thing than any description. 

 Carcle'm, Dec. 4. 1839. 



Allow me to point out a mistake of 

 your engraver in the sketch of the wire 

 trellis in Vol. XV. p. 632. By fig. 153. 

 it would appear as if the blocks of stone, 

 into which the uprights and stays are 

 fixed, rested on a foundation of mason- 

 work : but this is not the case ; the stones 

 being so large and heavy, as to require 

 nothing more than to be bedded in the 

 places where they are intended to re- 

 main. To any practical person, such a 

 foundation as is represented will appear 

 quite unnecessary, but the fear of its 

 misleading others has induced me to 

 trouble you with this explanation. ^ *^^' '^ ... 



Fig. 2. is the figure to which Mr. Booth refers, corrected 



agreeably to his directions. It may be useful to some of our 



readers to be informed that Mr. Booth's espalier trellis can be 



put up in any part of the kingdom by workmen sent from the 



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