. 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. 1553. The frame on props, in construction, resembles the Alderstone pit, excepting that the superstructure is a frame instead of masonry. Such frames are much used about London to grow pines, the back being enclosed by walled hurdles, supported by the pr
. 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. 1553. The frame on props, in construction, resembles the Alderstone pit, excepting that the superstructure is a frame instead of masonry. Such frames are much used about London to grow pines, the back being enclosed by walled hurdles, supported by the props as stakes, and round the hurdles linings of dung are applied. 1554. There are a great many varieties of this species of frame : that adopted at Ed- monton for the culture of pines will be noticed in treating of that fruit. Sect. II. Fixed Structures. 1555. Fixed structures consist chiefly of erections for the purpose of improving the climate of plants by shelter, by supplying heat, and by exposing them to the influence of the sun. The genera are walls and espalier rails, of each of which the species are numerous. 1556. Garden-walls are formed either of brick, wood, stone, or earth, or brick and stone together; and they are either solid, flued, or cellular, upright or sloping, straight or angular. 1557. Brick, stone, or mud ivalls consist of three parts, the foundation, the body of the wall, and the coping. The foundation should be somewhat broader than the body of the wall, and of depth proportionate to the quality of the sub-soil, or intended plan of culture. In some cases where it is intended that the roots should have free access to both sides of the wall, it should be placed on arches (Jig. 235.), or piers, with plank- stones, the soffit of the stone or under crown of the arch being within 6 inches, or 1 foot of the surface, and the openings, smaller or larger, according to the power of the materials to resist the pressure of the wall. The arch should be a segment of a
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