TUE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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Vallce de Ohamounix. — Tea-scented ; yellow. Daclier. 
To economize carriage and packing, those who desire these new 
roses can write to either of the seven horticulturists who obtained 
them. 
LLOYD’S WALL COPING FOR THE PROTECTION OF 
FRUIT-TREES. 
have recently had our attention directed by Mr. Lloyd, 
the well-known horticultural builder, of Grantham, 
Lincolnshire, to a new wall coping, mannfactured under 
the name of the “ Portable Fruit-tree Crymoboethus,” 
which has been designed for the protection from spring 
frosts of fruit-trees trained to walls. This coping, we are assured, 
on the most undoubted authority, is one of the best forms of coping 
that could possibly be had, and in every way adapted for the pur- 
pose for which it is manufactured. The sashes are made in six-feet 
lengths, aud are supported by cast-iron brackets, as shown in the 
accompanying illustration, so as to render them thoroughly secure. 
They are also, it may be well to add, made thoroughly portable, so 
that they can be put up and taken down in the most expeditious 
manner by an inexperienced workman. The brackets are also made 
to receive gutters, for the purpose of carrying the water from the 
glass to the end of the coping, instead of allowing it to drip down 
and splash over the trees. But, in the case of fruit-trees trained to 
walls, protection of some kind is needed, there can be no doubt, for 
the failures of the last few years have been sufficient to show, that 
without protection the crops of the choicer kinds of wall-fruits, such 
as peaches and nectarines, are of such a precarious character, as to 
render it almost a waste of time to give the trees the necessary 
attention to keep them in health. It is not, therefore, necessary to 
advance any argument in favour of protection, although there are, 
it is true, a few people who object to protecting trees ; but the mode 
and material are often at fault, for it is certainly most objectionable 
to cover the trees in such a manner as to prevent their receiving a 
fair share of light and air. The fact that an excess of moisture 
when the trees are in bloom is nearly as dangerous as a sharp frost, 
must not be overlooked ; and, further, it should be remembered that 
the blooms are capable of resisting the effects of a sharp frost much 
better when perfectly dry than when wet. Therefore, in keeping 
the flowers dry, one most important step is taken towards the pre- 
servation of the crop. This protection the invention under con- 
sideration affords in a most material degree; for whilst admitting 
the light to the trees without let or hindrance, it effectually protects 
the blossoms from rains and heavy dews. To afford still further 
protection to the trees, tanned netting, tiffany, scrim, canvas, or 
other protecting material, can be hung from the coping to the 
ground, and kept in its place with the aid of a few poles or tubular 
iron pillars, which are supplied when desired by the manufacturer. 
The wall-trees are now bristling with flower-buds, and, owing to the 
mildness of the winter, they will be in full bloom within a com- 
March. 
