PROTECTION FOR WALL AND ESPALIER TREES. 585 



another. Thus if a whole square is devoted to galvanized 

 trellises for Pears — at say nine feet high, and at from fifteen 

 to tTrenty feet apart^ the intermediate space being cropped, 



Fig. 339. 



AYall protected with wide temporary coping and canvas curtains. E, Iron sup- 

 port; 1), Horizontal Cordon Apple on Paradise Stock; B and C, eyes in the 

 iron to permit of galvanized wires being passed through. These wires support 

 the canvas which is stretched from C to B, 



the trellises, in addition to being individually well supported, 

 afford each other a mutual support by means of strong 

 wires running across all the lines of trellising, say at thirty 



