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are unattractive. The frequent renovation of others does a lot of damage to buds & 

 branches. And others only manage to train the trees crudely, irregularly, & unstably. 

 Similarly, bone, pegs, nails driven into or fastened on a wall, rods, &c, aren't good 

 substitutes for a trellis. 



I 1. 1 have a much higher regard for loquettes (these are small strips of cloth that 

 hold the branch & are fastened to the wall with small nails). But they're no use on a wall 

 of brick or hard stone, unless it's coated with plaster an inch thick. Although the cost of 

 the cloth & nails is not a major concern, the same can't be said for the time needed to 

 train a tree with loquettes, which is at least double that required to train it on a trellis. I 

 should add that a large branch whose orientation one wants to change can't be held with a 

 loquette, so to this extent the method is not equivalent to using a trellis. 



III. Some fashion a kind of trellis with heavy iron wire. First they fasten on the 

 wall, with nails or with iron hooks, three lengths of sturdy, oil-painted props of 

 heartwood of oak, parallel to the coping. One is placed under the coping, another at the 

 base of the wall, & the third halfway up the wall. Onto these three horizontal rows of 

 props, other similar ones are fastened every six feet with iron wire, intersecting them at 

 right angles & dropping vertically. They then stretch iron wires from one end of the wall 

 to the other and fasten them to the vertical props with nails. Similar iron wires are 

 stretched vertically and likewise fastened with nails onto the three horizontal lengths of 

 props. The lengths of iron wire, both horizontal and vertical, are placed nine to twelve 

 inches apart. Finally, the lengths of heavy iron wire are tied together with brass or with 

 thin, annealed iron wire 



