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intervals, taking care to get them truly in line. Some 
moderately fine galvanised iron or zine wire is now drawn 
through the eyes, and tightened up by any convenient 
means, one of the best being to fix a piece of light 
quartering, or better still a length of angle-iron, either 
with holes drilled along opposite each wire, at each end, 
in a line with the trellis. The wires may be secured at 
one end by passing the wire through each hole and twisting 
the end a few times round itself, in the usual way, and 
tightened at the other by means of a long screw and nut, 
with an eye for the wire at the other end. 
This plan is, however, a comparatively clumsy and costly 
one, at least when adopted on a large scale, while the 
rafters are naturally weakened to a slight extent by 
the holes made in them by the screw-eyes. In large 
vineries, etc., a perfectly independent trellis should be 
provided, and in all such cases there is nothing superior 
to the method adopted almost universally in the Worthing 
district. This is to fix a length of stout angle-iron, bent 
at the ends so as to be securely bolted to the ridge and 
wall-plate, or muntins, at the top and bottom respectively, 
and drilled at intervals for the wires, as above. Inter- 
mediate bearing bars of slight flat bar-iron about 1j}in. by 
din. in section are provided and supported by other short 
lengths of the same screwed to the rafters at the top, 
and bent to clasp the long ends at the bottom, these last 
being also drilled or punched for the wires. These 
intermediate rods, or bars, should stand 5ft. or 6ft. apart and 
the wires themselves may be placed 10in. or 12in. apart. The 
wires are threaded as before, and strained quite tight by 
means of long screws and nuts, or thumb-screws, at one 
