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HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 



Fig. 340. 



feet apart. At tlie bottom run rows of liorizontal cordon 

 Apples of the most important kinds. The posts are placed 



closer together in erecting 

 the trellises than when the 

 trees are abandoned to the 

 vicissitudes of the weather. 



I describe this more for 

 what it suggests than any- 

 thing else. Some similar 

 arrangement is badly 

 wanted with us^ and should 

 not be difScult to contrive. 

 Ey having a few lines of 

 choice Apples trained on 

 the low cordon system at 

 each side, and two good 

 rows of Pear trees^ a great 

 deal of valuable fruit could 

 be protected at the same 

 time by making some ar- 

 rangement whereby the whole could be covered with cheap 

 canvas. 



Shading fob, Conservatories. — A mode of shading con- 

 servatories and glasshouses by means of laths and slender 

 rods of wood is com- 

 mon in France^, and 

 several inquiries about 

 it induced me to ob- 

 tain specimens of the 

 various kinds used,, and 

 have them figured. 

 The illustrations repre- 

 sent small portions of 

 this shading of exactly 

 the full size. The large 

 one of laths united by 



Mode of Fixing Iron Support, &c., sliown 

 in preceding Figures. 



Fig. 341. 



Portion of Lath Shade for roof of Conservatory : 

 full size. 



wire is frequently used for the outer side of the roof of con- 

 servatories, in which position it is supposed to save a 

 great deal of trouble as compared with the common modes 



