110 Notices of Communications to the Society, of which 



sketch will convey a perfect idea of the machine recom- 

 mended. 



The obliquity of the ladder brings the rounds into such a 

 position, one above the other, that the effects of frost, and 

 of cutting winds, are completely guarded against, and yet 

 the sun's rays are admitted, and a free circulation of air al- 

 lowed. The ladders are placed in front of the trees, just 

 before the blossoms begin to expand, and continued there till 

 the fruit is of good size, when they may be removed to a shed, 

 to remain till the next season. With common care they will 

 last several years, and the straw or hay-bands may be easily 

 renewed. The experience of four years has fully confirmed 

 Mr. Phelps in the opinion of the utility of this kind of 

 protection. 



Mr. James Dale, Gardener to the Earl of Hardwicke, at 

 Wimpole, in Cambridgeshire, transmitted to the Meeting, on 



