THE EAIDISSEUR. 



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ment in our gardens and on our walls. It will save labour, 

 time, expense, and make walls, and permanent trellises for 

 fruit growing infinitely more agreeable to the eye and useful 

 to the cultivator tban ever they were before. 



There are various forms which I need hardly describe, as 

 they are so well shown 



in the accompanying FlG - 329 - 



cuts. The first (Fig. 329) 

 is a reduced figure of 

 one about three inches ^*f ||F 



long, and of which I 

 brought some specimens 

 from Paris. The engraver has placed it in the best position 

 to show its structure. The wire that passes in through one 

 end is slipped through a hole in the axle ; the other end is 

 attached to the tongue, as shown in the engraving, and 

 then by the aid of a key, Fig. 330, placed on the square 



The Eaidisseur. 



Fig. 330. 



Key of Eaidisseur. 



end of the axle, the whole is wound much as a guitar 

 string is wound round its peg. The first form figured is 

 very much used in the best gardens, and always seemed to 

 me to do its work effectively. 



The next figure is that of the Raidisseur invented by 

 Collignon and re- 

 commended by FlG - 831 - 

 Du Breuil. It 

 does not differ 

 much from the 

 preceding. D 

 shows the point 

 of insertion of 



the wire that has to be tightened; B the fastening of 



p p 



Collignon's Eaidisseur. 



