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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Habch 8, 1859. 
SHELTER EOE WALL TREES—CUTTING PANS. 
As the season for sheltering wall trees, whether from sunshine 
or frost, is upon us, and some brother cottagers may bo unpro¬ 
vided with the needful appliances, I send you a description of 
what I use; in order that, if you consider it in any way useful and 
novel, it may be suggested to them. 
Let me premise the requirements I had to meet, and which ex¬ 
perience proves to have been attained, were facility of construction 
and of application ; and in use, economy, sightliness (my trees 
being in full view from the drawing-room window), and one more 
quality, which, for want of a word ready made, 1 will simply call 
“ stow-away-when-done-with-ability.” 
On the top of the wall, which is five feet eight inches high, I 
mark a point over the centre of my tree ; at eighteen inches on 
each side of that point I drive a wooden plug between the bricks, 
two inches in, from the front of the wall; and at three feet from 
these plugs, oil each side, another. Into these plugs I drive four 
common wall hooks, upright, with the hooks pointing backward— 
i. e., from the face of the wall. These distances are taken at. an 
inch, more or less, a3 the joints of the brickwork fall. Next, I 
plane the rough off a twelve-foot inch board ; and laying the edge 
of it against the wall hooks, so that each end extends eighteen 
inches beyond the outside ones, mark the points of contact, and 
there screw in four stout iron eyes. The board then has three 
coats of paint, two lead and one green ; and being hung by the 
eyes, it stands out from the wall at a good slope. But to keep it 
firm, I have props or legs nine inches long, made of stout iron 
wire, which swing upon eyes screwed into the under side of the 
board at each end, just within its outer edge ; and their points are 
“jobbed” into the mortar of the upper course of bricks, where 
the weight of the board keeps them secure, while they prevent 
its straining on the hooks. In an exposed part of the wall, 
where I fear south-west winds, I tie the board down by a string 
passing from the eyes, upon which these legs swing, to other eyes 
driven into the wall, where they rest upon it. This completes 
the top shelter. 
I take eight yards of canvass, which, cut in half, give two 
pieces, each the length of my board. These are sewn together, 
and nailed by their selvages to two pantile laths, which also run 
twelve feet long. On one of these laths are screwed four brass 
rings at the distances described for the wall hooks, only very 
exactly ; and four brass round hooks are screwed into the under 
side of the board, to correspond, fully four inches within its outer 
edge. When the lath is hung upon these hooks, the lower lath 
keeps the canvass neatly distended, and enables you to roll it up 
tightly, and smoothly, in much less time than half a minute. When 
so rolled up, completely under shelter of the board, the canvass 
is held there by two straps of leather eight inches long, through 
one end of each of which the middle brass hooks are screwed : 
the other end has a button-hole cut in it; so that, when it encircles 
the roll of canvass, it is buttoned upon the same hook that screws 
it to the board. To prevent the canvass chafing the blossoms off, 
I put four sticks slantingly against the wall, their points into the 
ground. Two pantile laths, halved, make them; and a rub of 
green paint improves them. This completes the apparatus. 
The cost of this shelter to twelve feet of a six-foot wall is—• 
a. d. 
One board, twelve feet by nine inches. 1 6 
Pour wall hooks. 0 3 
Two legs (iron wire shut into screw eyes) ... 0 3 
Paint . 1 0 
Eight yards of canvass, at 2-Jd. per yard ... 1 10 
Pour pantile laths, at 2£d. each . 0 10 
Tacks, thread, and leather. 0 4 
Pour small brass hooks and rings . 0 3 
6 3 
And as a number made at once would come a little cheaper, 
you may say 6d. per foot run. 
I cannot put down anything for labour, as I plane and paint 
the board myself, and Mrs. Green Hand does the sewing for a 
consideration, which cannot be reduced to figures, but which it 
is quite a pleasure to pay. The canvass (which I hunted all 
over London for) may be had in any quantity of Mr. Hyde, 
Old Pish Street, Doctors’ Commons. I have just put up mine 
for the third season ; the canvass is as sound as when new. It 
took me, as near as I could calculate, a quarter of an hour to 
erect the shelter to each tree. 
When done with for the season, as shelter, the boards are laid 
upon angle irons nailed to the wall of an outhouse; and, as shelves, 
afford me an immense deal of room to stow Carnations, Chry¬ 
santhemums, and other hardy things, which I keep in pots 
through the winter. The canvass, carefully dried and rolled up 
on its laths, is slung to a range of hooks in the ceiling, and the 
wall laths cither go with them, or get used as supports for Roses, 
Ac. This is what I call “ stow-away-wlien-done-with-ability.” 
Apropos of stowage, I must mention a most excellent in¬ 
vention which I have seen advertised in your columns—Messrs. 
Adams’ square pans. In my liliputian frames and greenhouse, 
the room they save is invaluable ; but it is most at this current 
time I find their benefit, in giving a proportion of room to place 
cuttings next the pot-side (compared to the common pan), ns 
four to three; and I can stow almost as largely increased a 
number of pans in my frames. This is a saving which genuine 
“ cottagers” must appreciate. I hope you will excuse my calling 
attention to it; fori daresay your advertising columns are njt 
read by' all quite so attentively as they are by—A Gheen Hand. 
BRITISH POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
A Meeting of the Bkitisii Pomological Society was held 
at St. James’ Hall, Regent Street, on Thursday last, Robert 
Hogg, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Several new members were elected. 
On the tables were exhibited the best and the largest collection 
of fruits, for this late season of the year, we have ever seen—there 
being upwards of 120 dishes in all. Poremost among them was 
that of Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgcworth, w r ho had forty sorts 
of Apples and fifteen sorts of Pears. There were also excellent 
collections from Mr. Cox, of Redleaf; Mr. McLaren, of Card- 
ington ; Mr.Holder, of Reading; Mr. Newton, of Enfield Chase ; 
ar.d numerous others; but, as we have not space to give a full 
report of the Meeting this week, we shall notice both the ex¬ 
hibitors and the exhibitions in a subsequent paper. 
An oval-shaped Black Grape, with a very thick skin, was sent 
by the Archbishop of Armagh, and was in excellent keeping con¬ 
dition. It was agreeably flavoured, and had that glutinous flesh 
round the stoue, so remarkable in the native American Grapes. 
The object for which the Meeting assembled was to decide on 
the best and second best-kept collections of fruit. The first 
prize was awarded to Mr. Cox, of Redleaf, and the second to 
Mr. McLaren, of Cardington. In reference to the latter, the 
Secretary stated to the Meeting, that of all the fruit that comes 
to these Meetings, Mr. McLaren’s is the most carefully labelled 
and packed, and gives less trouble than many of the collections 
usually do. It might be worthwhile to remark, that the manner 
Mr. McLaren adopts for labelling, is that of writing the name on 
a strip of paper, and pasting it on the fruit,—a practice censured 
by a cotemporary after the Meeting at Willis’ Rooms, but, 
nevertheless, approved by the Pomological Society. 
Mr. Newton, of Enfield Chase, offered a prize next aut umn for 
the best dish of Cornish Gillijlower Apple, and at the same time 
declines to compete himself. 
CARTER’S FLORAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 
The literature and art of Messrs. Carter’s establishment may 
safely aspire to a respectable position in the literature and art of 
gardening. Their catalogue which we recently noticed, and 
which, no doubt, is now in the hands of most of our readers, is a 
model of its kind: and now we have before us, Nos. 5 and G of 
“ Carter’s Floral Illustrations,” which, for execution and beauty 
can compare with any floral illustrations of the day. The 
former consists of a group, representing :—1. Lagunaria vittata. 
2. GSnotliera bistorta Veitchii. 3. Nolana paradoxa violacea. 
4. Gaillardia hybrida grandifiora. 5. Lupinus Hartwegii cceles- 
tinus. 6. Dwarf-spotted Nasturtium. 7. Fenzlia dianthoidis. 
8. Carter’s Tom Thumb Nasturtium. In No. G, there is also a 
beautiful group, consisting of:—Cosmidium Burridgii. 2. Vis- 
caria Dunnetti. 3. Rose Balsam. 4. Lupinus nanus albus. 
5. Dwarf German Stock, G. Scarlet Balsam. 7. Purple ditto, 
8. Lobelia formosa. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Lobelia hamosoidks Seeding [J. Fanisuorth, Longdon ).— Our cor¬ 
respondent says, “it has seeded with me these two last years,” and has 
sent us some of the produce, which we shall sow, and see who is right and 
who is wrong about this Lobelia producing seed in England. There arc 
