APPENDIX. 



THE PEACH TRELLIS OF THOMAS WHITE, ESQ., MANOR 

 HOUSE, "WEATHER SEIELD, ESSEX. 



In the autumn of the year 1851, Mr. White, while 

 walking through the grounds here, happened to see my 

 small Ker's trellis with movable lights, and on his re- 

 turn home the idea occurred to him that it might be 

 enlarged, and the principle improved upon, so as to be 

 able to grow fruit enough for a large family. In the 

 autumn of that year, he accordingly built a trellis-house 

 of the folio wins; dimensions : — 



Length .... 



Width (inside) . 



Height at back . 



Height at front . 



Rafters (fixed 20 inches apart) 



Trellis (15 inehes from the glass) 



Sunken path in centre 



. 80 feet. 

 . 12 feet. 

 . 8 feet. 

 . 14 inches. 

 . 14 feet long. 

 . 13 feet wide. 

 . 2 feet deep. 



The front and back plates both rest on larch poles 

 about four or five feet apart ; a shutter, twelve inches 

 wide, on hinges, forms, with a slip of board, the front 

 wall. The back wall is made with long fagots of 

 brushwood — a double row ; the ends are boarded up, 

 and a door is at each end. Perhaps no gardening 

 structure was ever built so cheaply, and none ever pro- 



