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HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 



200 lbs. avoirdupois may be obtained for less than 4>l., and 

 220 lbs. will extend a distance of 13,123 English feet. This 

 size will also suit well for espaliers, No. 12 being strong enough 

 for the coarsest trees on walls or trellises, and 1 3 and 14 quite 

 large enough for general work. A size, or even several sizes 

 smaller, will suffice for dwarf trellises with three rows of wire 

 or so, to accommodate very dwarf trees of any shape the culti- 

 vator may desire. Since writing the above, I have been in- 

 formed by Messrs. J. B. Brown and Co., of 90, Cannon-street, 

 that they supply the chief Parisian houses who furnish French 

 fruit-growers with this useful galvanized wire. The sizes 

 appropriate for cordons, trellises, &c., are sold at from 30s. 



Fig. 348. 



Trellis for young Trees in Nurseries. 



to 44s. per mile, so that the material is cheap enough. It 

 is sold by weight, No. 12 size being 31s. per cwt. of 1241 

 yards, and a smaller size 34s. per cwt. of 2031 yards. 

 Those who merely want a little wire for experimenting with 

 cordons can buy it by length, the smaller size at 2s. 3d., 

 the larger at 3s. 6d. per 100 yards. 



In some of the best fruit nurseries I noticed a simple and 

 effective kind of trellising used for training young wall and 

 espalier trees. It is useful in enabling the French to keep 

 in stock trees for these purposes to a greater age than is 

 the case in our own nurseries, and for various purposes 

 should prove useful to the grower of young fruit trees. A 



