ATTACHING WIRE TO GARDEN WALLS, ETC. 589 



springs, — it will be freely admitted that a change is wanted 

 badly. The system of wiring a wall above described is 

 simple, cheap, almost everlasting, and excellent in every 

 particular ; and it must before many years elapse be nearly 

 universally adopted in our fruit gardens. A man may do 

 as much work in one day along a wall wired thus as he 

 could in six with the old nail and shred. As to galvanized 

 wire having an injurious effect on the fruit trees trained on 

 it, it is simply nonsense ; I will not therefore waste space and 

 the intelligent reader's time by discussing it. Given a 

 concrete wall, as described elsewhere in this book, smoothly 



Fig. 345. 



Wall with Galvanized Wires for training Trees. 



plastered, and wired thus, what fruit trees could be in a 

 more excellent position than those upon it? The tempo- 

 rary coping taken off after all danger from frost was past, 

 every leaf would be under the refreshing influence of the 

 summer rains, all the advantages of walls as regards heat 

 would be obtained, the syringing engine would not be 

 counteracted by countless dens offering dry beds and com- 

 fortable breeding-places to the enemies of the gardener and 

 the fruit tree, while the appearance of the wall would be all 

 that could be desired. 



The wire and the raidisseur are also efficiently used so as 

 to do away with any necessity for nailing in training the 



