PROTECTION rOR 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 twenty feet apart^ the intermediate space being cropped^ 



Fig. 339. 



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

 port ; D, 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 



