. 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. â 168 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. 424 and variegated caterpillars. These insects devour the leaves and eat deeply into the fruit when grown to a good size ; so that it perishes and drops off* the trees. The shelters are likewise very prejudicial to
. 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. â 168 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. 424 and variegated caterpillars. These insects devour the leaves and eat deeply into the fruit when grown to a good size ; so that it perishes and drops off* the trees. The shelters are likewise very prejudicial to both fruit and branches, by depriving them of the descend- ing dews, from which they imbibe great nourishment. Large pillars or piers have almost the same ill effects ; besides, they shade the rays of the sun from the trees part of the day, more or less, in proportion to their size. Though walls built with curves have, in calm seasons, the benefit of more heat than others; yet, in windy weather, the winds from some point or other rebounding from side to side, break and destroy the tender branches and blossoms of trees, whereby they are much more injured than the heat reflected from one wall to the other can be of advantage to them. I have found by experience, that walls built straight and upon arches, as mentioned before, are preferable to all others, having a coping which projects about two inches to shoot off the rain, in order to preserve the ; (TV. on Fruit Trees, p. 40.) 2451. With respect to the con- struction ofivallsfor kitchen-gardens, the common upright, straight wall is now generally preferred to the sloping, angular, or curved walls, tried in several places about a cen- tury ago, and criticised by Justice, Miller, Switzer, and other authors of that day. There may occur cases, however, in which these uncommon forms, and others which we have no- ticed (1556 to 1575.), may be adopted with propriety. A very good applica- tion of the angular wall, when form
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