. The book of the garden. Gardening. not be great—say 4 feet for the minimum. They afford shady walks in summer, and, with a very simple contrivance, may be covered in spring, to protect the blos- soms—an advantage standard trees are seldom capable of having afforded them. This mode of training trees has been adopted at Trentham and elsewhere ex- tensively. Many years ago our attention was directed to pears trained on inclined wooden trellises, both on the Continent and in various parts of Britain. We thought them inferior to perpendicular ones, as they covered so much ground, and because we o
. The book of the garden. Gardening. not be great—say 4 feet for the minimum. They afford shady walks in summer, and, with a very simple contrivance, may be covered in spring, to protect the blos- soms—an advantage standard trees are seldom capable of having afforded them. This mode of training trees has been adopted at Trentham and elsewhere ex- tensively. Many years ago our attention was directed to pears trained on inclined wooden trellises, both on the Continent and in various parts of Britain. We thought them inferior to perpendicular ones, as they covered so much ground, and because we observed many of the pears hanging from their under sides, and hence shaded from the sun. The same objection, but of course to a some- what more limited extent, may be urged against curvilinear ones, and also against such as are represented in fig. 798. Fig. Their breadth within need It would, no doubt, be a great im- provement upon horizontal and inclined espaliers, and such as are not in- tended to have walking space under- neath, and would bring them nearer in utility to a wall—between which and the open standard they may be said to form the connecting link—if the spaces below them were filled up with dry ma- terial, and covered over within 6 inches of the bars either with paving bricks, tiles, or slates. The solar heat that would pass through between the branches in spring, and the leaves in summer, would, instead of passing downwards and being absorbed by the soil, be arrested in its progress during the day by any of these materials, and be given out again, by reflection or radiation, to the trees. A small volume of atmospheric air, en- closed as it were between the trees and the covering under. them, would become considerably heated—a circumstance that never can take place if the rays of heat are allowed to pass directly downwards. In the case of fig. 798, the trees should be planted at the back part, and trained. Please note that these images are extracted
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