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HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 



200 lbs. avoirdupois may be obtained for less than 4/,_, and 

 320 lbs. will extend a distance of 13,123 Englisb feet. This 

 size will also suit well for espaliers. No. 12 being strong enough 

 for the coarsest trees on walls or trellises, and ] 3 and 14 quite 

 large enough for general work. A size, or even several sizes 

 smaller, will suffice for dwarf trellises with three rows of wire 

 or so, to accommodate very dwarf trees of any shape the culti- 

 vator may desire. Since writing the above, I have been in- 

 formed by Messrs. J. B. Brown and Co., of 90, Cannon-street, 

 that they supply the chief Parisian houses who furnish French 

 fruit-growers with this useful galvanized wire. The sizes 

 appropriate for cordons, trellises, &c., are sold at from 30^. 



Fig. 348. 



Trellis for young Trees in Nurseries. 



to Ms. per mile, so that the material is cheap enough. It 

 is sold by weight. No. 12 size being 31*. per cwt. of 1241 

 yards, and a smaller size 34*. per cwt. of 2031 yards. 

 Those who merely want a little wire for experimenting with 

 cordons can buy it by length, the smaller size at 2*. 3d., 

 the larger at 3^. 6d. per 100 yards. 



In some of the best fruit nurseries I noticed a simple and 

 effective kind of trellising used for training young wall and 

 espalier trees. It is useful in enabling the French to keep 

 in stock trees for these purposes to a greater age than is 

 the case in our own nurseries, and for various purposes 

 should prove useful to the grower of young fruit trees.> A 



