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FUUIT TREES. 



Trellis for Peaches in Single Oblique Cordon. — If 

 a trellis be preferred, the following will be found the 

 simplest and least costly form (fig. 163). It is made 

 as follows :— 



Fix at A a galvanised iron wire ; pass it tbrough. 

 tbe eyes of the iron bold-fasts, driven into the wall at 

 B and ; then upon the round nails D and E ; then 

 bring it down, and through the hold-fasts F and G, 

 then upon the nails H and I, then up and through the 

 hold-fasts J and K, and fix it at L. Commence a new 

 length of wire, fastening it at IST, and continue as 

 before to the end of the wall. These first lines of 

 thick iron wire, fixed as we have directed, thirty 

 inches apart, and inclined to an angle of forty-five 

 degrees, will support the stems of the peach trees. 

 The winter fastening, and the support of the fruit- 

 branches, are provided for by two other lines of thinner 

 iron wire placed on each side of the first, one about 

 two and a half inches from the stem, the other about 

 eight inches, One of these iron wires is fixed at a, 

 then taken up to, and through, the hold-fast b, then 

 round the nails c and d, then down and through the 

 hold-fast By round the nails / and g, through the hold- 

 fast h, over the nails i and /, through the hold-fast A', 

 and is fixed at /. A fresh wire is then fastened at the 

 right of the thick wire, and continued to the end of 

 the wall. 



We use for fixing the wires the iron hold-fast and 

 round nails described at page 106 ; and the tighteners, 

 described at page 107, are placed at the points P, 

 to tighten the wires. This kind of trellis costs (in 



