The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . 3, which combines solidity, elegance and lightness, qualities never found togetherin wooden trellises. The iron trellis, too, preserves all the forms or shapes which are givento it, and one may thus train plants in all the varied styles which are otherwise inapplica-ble. The form which is used has a circular head, like a parasol, consisting of four wires,which are bent and sustained in their position by three circles or hoops, the undermostconsiderably stouter than the others. The stem is supported at the base by three prongs,which
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . 3, which combines solidity, elegance and lightness, qualities never found togetherin wooden trellises. The iron trellis, too, preserves all the forms or shapes which are givento it, and one may thus train plants in all the varied styles which are otherwise inapplica-ble. The form which is used has a circular head, like a parasol, consisting of four wires,which are bent and sustained in their position by three circles or hoops, the undermostconsiderably stouter than the others. The stem is supported at the base by three prongs,which are made so as to admit of being fixed in the ground or in a pot. This form, whenmade from three to four feet high, produces a very good effect, when used to support such aplant as Calystegia pubescens, which looks remarkably well trained to this form of same form may be used in training climbing roses, in pots or in the openground;their branches being led over the arches so as to cover the whole, present a mass of flow-ers in the summer
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