80 Account of a Protecting Frame for Fruit-trees on Walls. 



1 1 1 1, are the iron wires on which the screen slides by means 

 of rings. 



d d dd, are thumb-screws, for tightening the wires and pre- 

 venting them from relaxing. 



e e e e, are the rings upon the bottom wire. When the screen 

 is adjusted, the lower facing F, is folded up to K K, 

 and fastened with square buttons,//. 



LLLL, the plan of the wall and the bottom of the frame, 

 with a semicircular hole cut in the latter, sufficiently 

 large to receive the stem of the tree, and thus to per- 

 mit the frame being fixed close to the wall. 



MMMM, the section of a side of the frame and of the wall. 



N N, are the top and bottom stops to keep the screen in its 

 place. 



O, is a piece of cloth loosely suspended between the wall and 

 the upright stake P, to receive the fruit that falls off 

 the tree. The stake P, is repeated at convenient dis- 

 tances in the frame. 



Report made from the Garden of the Horticultural Society 

 on the Utility of Mr. Dick's Frame for Protecting Fruit- 

 trees on Walls. 



The chief advantage* of this frame is, its protecting 

 ripening fruit from wasps and other insects, that always 

 attack wall-fruit when approaching maturity. This incon- 

 venience is much felt whenever these insects are numerous, 



* It is understood that a Medal was awarded by the Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society to Mr. Dick, in June last, in consequence of a favourable report to the 

 Society respecting his Protecting Frame. 



