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rature for the growing season may be stated at 75° or 80°, on 
reaching which air must be admitted, and the minimum should 
be 60°; for the resting period 60° will be quite enough for the 
maximum, allowing it to fall at night, and in dull weather to 
about 50°. — Ed. 
TRELLIS FOR CLIMBING PLANTS. 
Many very opposite opinions are just now being promulgated 
as to the most appropriate form to be given to climbing plants, 
or rather to the wire frames on which they are trained, and 
there are advocates for nearly every imaginable shape. The 
proper disposal of the tender and flexible branches of these 
plants is, beyond question, a matter embracing a considerable 
amount of taste, and affords the gardener an excellent oppor¬ 
tunity for the display of ingenuity and attention. For this 
reason I may be pardoned troubling you with a somewhat worn 
subject, though a notice of it seems necessary in defence 
of those who presume to think in opposition to the savans who 
are attempting to lead all taste. 
Some of these gentlemen state in the most positive tone, that 
in future nothing but globular or cylindrical trellis can be re¬ 
ceived as possessing the least pretensions to propriety. Many 
extraordinary reasons are assigned for this decision, and some 
hard names employed to attach ridicule to the old-fashioned 
flat frames usually seen. Now, as I happen to use a great many 
of all descriptions, and from conviction am favourable to the 
flat trellis, with your permission I will undertake the defence of 
its continued use. And first, to meet the dissentients in their 
most important objection, viz. its tastefulness, here I must 
observe, that in my opinion true taste consists in the appropriate 
application of ornament to whatever in itself bears the impress 
of some definite object of usefulness, and without which all 
ornament is mere fantastic arrangement. What, then, is the 
object in supplying trellis to climbing plants ? Is it not that the 
whole plant may be seen and admired ? This cannot be dis¬ 
puted ; and then what form can be chosen but the flat one, 
which will do this to the full ? Circular trainers of any kind 
exhibit only half the plant, and most troublesome it is to pre- 
