186 WALLS, ESPALIER-RAILS, AND TRELLIS- WORK. 



shrub," he says, " may be trained on curvilinear trellises, as in figs. 124 and 

 125, over the walks and thoroughfares of the garden ; which walks, when 



Fig. 124. Trellised arcade for Fruit-trees. 



Fig. 125. Trellis for Climbers. 



once properly drained, paved, and trellised with cast-iron arches and wire 

 rods, will remain cost-free, painting excepted, for twenty years ; at the end 

 of which term, independently of the increase of fruit, and of the grateful 

 shade and pleasing promenade that they will afford, they will be found 

 cheaper than the walks made of gravel, in the same way that a slated roof is 

 far cheaper in the long-run than one thatched. Besides the difference in daily 

 comfort and annual expenditure in walks paved with slate, slabs, or flag- 

 stone, at all seasons clean, and ready to be traversed by the foot or the wheel- 

 barrow alike in frost and in thaw, there will be no more danger of dessert 

 strawberries or garnishing parsley, when grown as edgings, being mingled 

 with the coal-ashes in the walks ; no more cleaning and rolling of gravel ; 

 and no planting and clipping of box." Fig. 126 shows the plan of the paving 



and pillars at the intersections of the 

 ) I I walks, with the small foot-paths outside, 



for conducting the culture of the com- 

 partments. In open, airy situations 

 where hedges for shelter are desirable, 



- trellises of this sort might frequently be 



adopted as substitutes both in kitchen 

 and flower gardens. Single lines of 

 trellis-work, or even of frames to be 

 filled in with wire network, might also 

 be adopted as sources of shelter in spring ; 

 and in summer they might be covered 

 T7,„ 'o/. D, ,■ ^ with kidney-beans, peas, gourds, toma- 



Fsg. i26. Plan showing the intersection of ^ c ml. • xx* 



trellised walks. tas, uasturtiums, &c. 1 he Wire nettmg 



