. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 1573. Sheltering jners were formerly, in some cases, made of such-a width and depth as to contain a niche for training a vine, and, in that case, they were frequently raised above the coping of the wall. Examples of such piers exist in the walls of the k
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 1573. Sheltering jners were formerly, in some cases, made of such-a width and depth as to contain a niche for training a vine, and, in that case, they were frequently raised above the coping of the wall. Examples of such piers exist in the walls of the kitchen- garden at Claremont, built from the designs of Brown, and at Hatton in Scotland, built after a design by London and Wise. 247. 1574. Arched, niched, or recessed walls (fig. 247.) were contrived for the same pur- pose by Switzer, and, at least, had a massive imposing effect to the eye. Such walls were generally heated by flues, and formed in fact the intermediate link in the progress of im- provement between hot-walls and forcing-houses. 1575. Trellised ivalls are sometimes formed when the material of the wall is soft, as in mud walls ; rough, as in rubble-stone walls, or when it is desired not to injure the face of neatly finished brick-work. Wooden trellises have been adopted in several places, espe- cially when the walls are flued. Wire has also been used, and the following mode has been adopted by C. Holford, an ingenious horticultural amateur at Hampstead : " I affix cop- per wires from the top to the bottom of the wall, in a perpendicular direction, secured at each end by a small iron hook, two iron stair-staples are also driven in over the wires, at equal distances, to keep them nearly close to the wall. The wires may be placed at six to eight inches' distance from each other. The branches and shoots are fastened by means of thin twine, which is first tied to the wire with a single knot, and then round the shoot more or less tight, according as it may be req
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