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MOVEABLE SCREENS FOR WALL-FRUIT TREES. 
that we have Parsley plants now growing under a south wall considerably more than two 
feet in diameter. 
As I recommend that the coverings be applied as soon as the leaves fall from the trees 
in Autumn, we derive an additional advantage from them, as the operation of re-training 
can be much more comfortably performed during cold or tempestuous weather, and a 
considerable loss of time is thereby avoided. 
In conclusion, allow me to request my readers to picture to themselves the appearance 
of the fruit trees upon a clean washed wall, after they are neatly re-trained, and the 
monotonous appearance of the border relieved by orderly rows of plants ; let these things 
be coupled with the elegant iron standards, wdth the screens tidily rolled up, the well-kept 
edgings and a neatly rolled walk, and then let me ask them if the tout-ensemble is not 
calculated to please and interest the minds both of the employer and the employed. 
The accompanying section will assist in rendering the description of the plan intelligible. 
Wall, 12 feet high 14 inches thick. 
a. Fruit-tree border, 5 feet wide, 18 inches deep. 
b. Bed of concrete or ashes, 3 inches deep. 
c. Bed of rubble. 
d, Drain, 3 feet 6 inches below top of border. 
e, Rubble beneath front walk. 
f, Gravel of walk. 
g, Coping of wall, 3 inches thick at back, and channelled 
and thickening to 4 inches in front of wall. 
h, Projected boarded coping, 1 front over wall. 
i, Pulley for screen cord. 
J, KoUer for canvass screen. 
ft, Stone block in which the iron uprights are fixed. 
I, Ground level. 
m, Gravel walk, 2 feet wide. 
