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HOPS. 



The low frame (12-foot posts) is also for training on the 

 slope and is recommended by Wirth for use in steep gardens. 



Another excellent type is the 25-foot frame of Scipio and 

 Herth^ (Fig- 54), a principal advantage of which is the 

 sloping of the terminal posts both at the ends and sides of 

 the garden, so as to equally divide the angles enclosed by the 

 straining wire and head wire. This enables the frame to 

 oppose a stouter resistance to rough weather and does away 

 with the necessity of staying the terminal posts, unavoidable 

 when the latter are set up vertically. The posts in the 

 interior of the garden are upright. 



Fig. 54. — Soipio and Herth plan. 



The end posts are set up between the first and second, 

 seventh and eighth, thirteenth and fourteenth rows, and so 

 on, the other posts in the rows being set up so as to divide 

 the ground into squares. 



The stocks are planted on the triangular system, each 

 pair of rows being trained to one head wire. Consequently 

 the latter are stretched over the first, third, fifth, seventh 

 alleys, and so on. String is used for training, the method of 

 leading the strings being shown in Fig. 56. 



^ H. Zeeb, Der HandelsgewiCchsbau (Stuttgart, 1880). 



