ATTACHING WIRE TO GARDEN WALLS, ETC. 587 



Shade of very slender rods of wood and twine : 

 full size. 



of shading by canvas and like materials. It is sold in 

 lengths about a yard 



wide, but may be Fig. 342. 



readily adapted to tbe 

 roof of a conservatory 

 of any sliape, and fitted 

 into the smallest 

 nooks on curvilinear 

 roofs. The two smaller 

 sizes woven together 

 by twine would seem 



better adapted for the inner sides of windows in corri- 

 dors and conservato- 

 FiG. 343. i^ies. The three kinds 



are made by M. Mus- 

 serano, Rue du Fau- 

 bourg St. Denis, Paris, 

 and the large one, M. 

 Lebeauf, 6, Rue Vesale, 

 Jardin des Plantes. 



Attaching Wire 

 TO Garden - walls, 

 Trellising, &c. — If 

 there be any one practice of French horticulturists more 

 worthy of special recommendation to the English fruit- 

 grower than another, it is their improved way of placing 

 wires on walls, or in any position in which it may be 

 desired to neatly train fruit trees. So many have been the 

 failures in British gardens as regards the placing of the 

 wire to which to affix the trees, that the system has been 

 given up as useless and too expensive, and many have said 

 that the old-fashioned shred and nail are yet the best. 

 But there is a very much better and sounder way, and I 

 am completely converted as to the value of the French 

 mode of wiring here illustrated. In the first instance, 

 several strong iron spikes are driven into the brickwork 

 at the ends — in the right angle formed by two walls — 

 nails with eyes in them being driven in in straight lines, 

 exactly in the line of direction in which the wire is 



Shade of small Laths and slender Rods united 

 by twine : full size. 



