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Annals of Horticulture, 



Trellises.— 



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above the elbow and at the wrist, letting the string run out at 

 the bottom of the can and between the thumb and front fin- 

 ger. With this one can wind celery all day, if his back does 

 not get to aching too badly. This is all the drawback I have 

 found to it yet." — M. J. Green, in Ohio Farmer ; American 

 Garden, 704. 



47.) Good trellises made of hoops and 

 strings, as shown in the cut. — Geo. B. 

 Diemer, in Popitlar Gardening, z/j. 



Poling Beans. — Fig. 48 shows a 

 method of training four hills of beans to 

 a single pole. — Popular Gardening, 187. 



Method of Staking Roses. — (Fig. 

 49.) "I stretch a heavy wire directly 

 over each row of plants, 3^ feet above 

 the surface of the soil, to 

 which the top of each stake 

 is fastened with a piece of 

 fine wire." The stakes are 

 four feet long, and they ex- 

 tend two inches above the 

 wire. — Edward Salyer, in 

 American Florist, 146. 



Plant -Support. — Fig. 

 50 shows a simple and 

 handy wire plant-support. — 

 Popular Gardening, 124.. 



Strawberry-Plant Trim- 

 mer. — (Figs. 51, 52.) The 

 trimmer is made of heavy 

 sheet-iron 28 to 30 inches long and 6 inches wide, 

 a cylinder of about 9 inches in diameter. Instead of the 

 cross-bar handle the form shown in fig. 52 may be used. — E. 

 W. Reid, before the Ohio Horticultural Society ; reported by U. 

 S. Devol, in American Garden, 175. 



Iron Grape-Posts. — (Fig. 53.) Made of i^-inch gas- 

 pipe, 7 or 8 feet long. The top of the posts should be cov- 

 ered by a cap. They should be drawn to a closed point be- 

 low to keep out moisture. Or iron bars might be used, as 

 shown in the first two drawings. — IT. W. Smith, in A?nerican 

 Garden, 309. 



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Fig. 52. 



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