. Gleanings from French gardens: comprising an account of such features of French horticulture as are most worthy of adoption in British gardens. Gardening; Gardens. Fig, 8i. 264 Horticultural Implements, Appliances, etc. deal of trouble with temporary copings, and find them of the greatest use in getting good and regular crops, for the frosts are severe in the northern parts and all around Paris, in fact nearly all the region north of the river Loire, the most important region of France. The best temporary coping I have ever seen used was narrow lengths of tarpaulin nailed on cheap frames fro
. Gleanings from French gardens: comprising an account of such features of French horticulture as are most worthy of adoption in British gardens. Gardening; Gardens. Fig, 8i. 264 Horticultural Implements, Appliances, etc. deal of trouble with temporary copings, and find them of the greatest use in getting good and regular crops, for the frosts are severe in the northern parts and all around Paris, in fact nearly all the region north of the river Loire, the most important region of France. The best temporary coping I have ever seen used was narrow lengths of tarpaulin nailed on cheap frames from six feet to eight feet long, and about eighteen inches wide. The use of such on walls devoted to the culture of choice pears, peaches, &c., would result in a marked im- provement. The temporary coping has a great advantage in being removable, so that the trees may get the fuU benefit of the summer rains when all danger is past, and not suffer from want of light near the top of the wall, as they would if such a wide protect- ing coping were permanent. I believe that such a coping would be much more effective than any of the netting and canvas protec- tions now in use in English gardens. Mats for Covering Pits, Frames, &c.—In our cold and variable climate, the winter covering for many minor glass struc- tures is of the greatest importance. It is a thing that at pre- sent we do in a very expensive and by no means satisfactory way. The French mode of doing it is much cheaper, neater, and more effective; and in passing through their market gardens and forcing-grounds in winter, it is one of the first if not the chief thing that seems to the English horticulturist as worthy of imitation. The covering used consists of neat straw mats about an inch thick, the sides as clean and neat as if cut in a machine, tlie mat knit together by twine, and its texture such that it may be rolled up neatly and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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