PROTECTION FOR WALL AND ESPALIER TREES. 585 



another. Thus if a whole square is devoted to galvanized 

 trellises for Pears— at say nine feet high, and at from fifteen 

 to twenty feet apart, the intermediate space being cropped, 



Fig. 339. 



Wall protected with wide temporary coping and canvas curtains. E, Iron sup- 

 port ; 1), Horizontal Cordon Apple on Paradise Stock ; B and C, eyes in the 

 iron to permit of galvanized wires being passed through. These wires support 

 the canvas which is stretched from C to B. 



the trellises, in addition to being individually well supported, 

 afford each other a mutual support by means of strong 

 wires running across all the lines of trellising, say at thirty 



