. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 88 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. is a boarding nine inches wide, supported on iron brackets, to which tho boards are attached by screws. In the Horticultural Society's Gardens the copings are more inclined, the stone coping projecting two inches ; and six inches thick of York paving, Caithness flag, Ackworth paving-stone, and various heads of slate of the Pembrokeshire and other Welsh counties, make excellent coping stone. Roman cement has been tried; asphalt has also been tried succ
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 88 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. is a boarding nine inches wide, supported on iron brackets, to which tho boards are attached by screws. In the Horticultural Society's Gardens the copings are more inclined, the stone coping projecting two inches ; and six inches thick of York paving, Caithness flag, Ackworth paving-stone, and various heads of slate of the Pembrokeshire and other Welsh counties, make excellent coping stone. Roman cement has been tried; asphalt has also been tried successfully. Glass, six inches thick, and bevilled, has been thought the best material for coping, being perfectly indestructible by the weather ; and cast iron has been found to answer. As to shape, the flat coping, with a groove to carry ofi" the water, is supposed to be excellent. A very good coining is sometimes formed of brick and cement, as on the other side. Another form of coping strongly recommended is a stone, sloping on each side, laid on a flat one placed horizontally over the wall. 209. Copings projecting too far are said to deprive the leaves of the vigour they derive from summer rains and heavy dews, although they are useful in spring, when the trees are in blossom, and up to the time when the fruit is set. At this season, even in the drier climate of France, it is found necessary to protect the tender blossoms from the late frosts, hail, snow, and cold rains of spring, which are very fatal to stone-fruit; the walls in France being generally trelUsed, in order to protect the trees from the intensity of the heat produced by radiation, as distinguished fi'om our own more moist climate, where the practice is reversed : an angular framework of wood is attached to the trellis, projecting some twenty inches or so from the wall, at an inclination of 50°. "When the tree begins to vegetate, towai-ds the second of February, hurdles of straw attached to rods o
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