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wanted to pass. The wires are placed at about ten 

 inclies apart on the walls^, and the little hooks for their 

 support, also galvanized;, are fixed at about ten feet apart 

 along each wire. The exact distance between the wires must, 

 however, be deterniined by the kind of tree and the form to 

 be given to it. If horizontal training of the branches be 

 adopted, the wires had better be placed to form the lines 

 which we wish the branches to follow ; if the branches are 

 vertical, as in Fig. 243, we need not be so exact. The wire — 



Fig. 344. 



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Mode of arranging wires on walls for training fruit trees with vertical or hori- 

 zontal branches. A, Position of raidisseur ; B, Nails with eyes, through which 

 the wire is passed. 



about as thick as strong twine — is passed through the little 

 hooks, fastened at both ends of the wall into the strong iron 

 nails, and then made as straight as a needle and as tight as 

 a drum, by being strained with the raidisseur. The wires 

 remain at about the distance of half an inch or three quarters 

 from the wall. 



If we consider the expense of the shreds and nails, the 

 cutting of the former, the destroying of the surface of the 

 walls by the nails, and the leaving of numerous holes for 

 vermin to take refuge in ; the great annual labour of nailing, 

 and the miserable work it is for men in our cold winters and 



