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raidisseurs costs about threepence apiece in Paris. We cannot well 

 have more efficient things, though we may succeed in getting them 

 of a cheaper form. Indeed, I once saw one in use, about forty 



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Fig. 93. 



miles from Paris, which could not have cost more than a good nail, 

 but pnfortunately I forgot to secure a specimen or take a sketch of 

 it. However, I hope to secure it some day. The foregoing kinds 

 are galvanized, just like the wire. That shown by Fig. 94 is a very 



Fig. 94. 



simple one, not galvanized, and which was shown in use in the fruit 

 garden of the Great Exposition, This last form is surely such as can 

 be readily and cheaply produced in any manufacturing town. The 

 best of these tighteners are insignificant in price ; and if it were not 

 so it would still be profitable to employ them in consequence of the 

 great saving they eifect, by enabling us to use a very thin wire, 

 which is quite as efficient and infinitely neater than the ponderous 

 ones now generally used with us, where the nail and shred has given 

 way to some costly system of wiring. 



