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HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 



the other end of the wire 



key is placed. Fig. 332 



IS 



and A the head on which the 

 a side view of the same imple- 



FiG. 332. 



Side View of Collignon's Raidisseur. 



ment. The fore- 

 going kinds are 

 galvanized; just 

 like the wire. 

 That shown by 

 Fig. 333 is a 

 very simple one, 



not galvanized, which was much used in the fruit 

 garden of the Paris Exhibition. This last form is surely 

 such as can be readily and cheaply produced in any 

 manufacturing town. The best of these tighteners cost but 

 a few pence ; and if it were not so, it would still be profit- 



FiG. 333. 



Raidissisuv used in tlie garden of the Exhibition. 



able to employ them, in consequence of the great saving 

 they effect, by enabling us to use a very thin wire, which is 

 quite as efficient and infinitely neater than the ponderous 

 ones now generally employed by us, where the nail and 

 shred have given way to some costly system of wiring. 



Since writing the foregoing I have found a much im- 

 proved and very simple raidisseur in use at Thomery. Fig. 

 334 represents its actual size. It is simply a little piece of 

 cast-iron costing little more than a garden nail — so small that 

 its presence on wall or trellis does not look awkward, as in 

 the case of some of the larger kinds, and very effective. 

 I never met with it except in the garden of M. Rose- 



