OILED-PAPER FRAMES. 



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once. If first protected with hand-glasses, 

 when the glasses become filled with the runners, 

 remove the glasses, and place over the beds the 

 oiled-paper frames, there to remain during the 

 summer. 



The frames are formed of thin slips of wood, 

 like pan-tile laths, or poles, similarly constructed 

 to the roof of a house or an archway, ten feet 

 long, by three and a half to four or five wide, 

 and two and a half to three feet high, with two 

 pannels made to open on one side with hinges. 



The bottom of the frame is made of slight 

 wood-work, in which the small cross rafters are 

 fixed, a foot apart, either in a ridge form or 

 arched, and across these small rafters, pack- 

 thread, or strong twine is placed along the 

 frame lengthways, putting it round each rafter 

 about a foot apart, and others drawn across the 

 bed between the rafters, crossing or intersecting 

 the other lines, which will serve to strengthen 

 the rafters, and assist in supporting the paper ; 

 then take some strong white demy paper, and 

 paste on the rafters in a regular and neat man- 

 ner, and when dry, brush the paper all over with 



