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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



back wall, having a curved trellis in front, extending from the 

 front parapet to within a sufficient distance of the back wall 

 to admit of a walk of sufficient breadth. This curve is more 

 or less, according to circumstances, but should be kept as high 

 as possible, so as to enjoy as much benefit from the glass as 

 can be obtained, but still not so much as to shade in any de- 

 gi'ee the back wall. In houses of ordinary dimensions, trel- 

 lises constructed in this manner will admit of a great surface 

 for training upon. We have constructed with success perpen- 

 dicular gable trellises, exactly placed under every alternate 

 rafter in houses trellised as above, and never failed of having 

 very good fruit in all parts of the house. This we consider is 

 giving the greatest possible extent of trellis that can be intro- 

 duced into any house. It has been asserted, that such per- 

 pendicular treUises shade the other parts of the house; but 

 this is not the case, if due attention be paid to training in the 

 shoots, as they advance in a regular manner to the trellis ; a 

 practice which should be attended to upon every trellis ; and 

 so convinced are we of the propriety of such a mode of train- 

 ing, that were we to construct peach-houses to any extent, the 

 larger part should be trellised in this manner. In houses for 

 very early forcing, the back wall only is trellised, such houses 

 being very justly constructed on a narrow scale, and training 

 too near the glass in them, might be attended with accidents. 



