. An encyclopædia of gardening; . advantage, in the case of grapes and stone-fruil, on walls in the open air, and insome cases are required even in hot-houses. 1505. The shoe-scraper is a plate of iron, fixed vertically, either in a portable or fixedframe; and to render it complete, should always have a rigid brush and dust-box at-tached, both of which may be taken out and cleaned; their use in gardening is consi-derable, portable ones being placed at the entrances to every description of garden-building, and fixed ones at the exits from compartments to the main walks. They ought toabound, and
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . advantage, in the case of grapes and stone-fruil, on walls in the open air, and insome cases are required even in hot-houses. 1505. The shoe-scraper is a plate of iron, fixed vertically, either in a portable or fixedframe; and to render it complete, should always have a rigid brush and dust-box at-tached, both of which may be taken out and cleaned; their use in gardening is consi-derable, portable ones being placed at the entrances to every description of garden-building, and fixed ones at the exits from compartments to the main walks. They ought toabound, and their use be effectually insisted on wherever clean and pure gravel or turf-walks are desired objects. 1506. Garden or bass mats, are sheets of cloth, woven or matted from the bast (Russ.) 1501. The basket-edging {) is a rim or fret of iron-wire, and sometimes of laths ;formed, when small, in entirepieces, and when large, in seg-ments. Its use is to enclose dugspots on lawns, so that when theflowers and shrubs cover the. 219 220 Book III. ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE. 297 or inner bark of trees, and generally of the lime. They are manufactured in the inlandparts of Russia and Sweden, and even in some parts of Monmouthshire, of differentsizes. They are used in gardening for a great variety of purposes; for protecting wall-trees,by being hung before them, and removed in mild weather; for protecting espaliers andstandards, by being thrown over them ; for protecting more delicate shrubs, by beingthrown over an envelope of hay or straw, in which way most American trees and standard-roses are protected in the neighbourhood of Petersburgh ; for protecting tender plantscoming through the ground, by being spread on its siu-face, and such as are of a larger size,by being supported on hooped framing. They are used to cover hot-beds, hot-houses,hand-glasses, and every sort of glass case; to shelter plants from wind, shade them fromthe sun, &c. 1507. Prepared coverings are double mats
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