. The miniature fruit garden ; or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees ... Fruit-culture. APPLES AS DOUBLE LATERAL CORDOKS. 77 be rescued from spring frosts, but their fruit be ripen- ed in great perfection. There is no doubt but that in some of our cold and cloudy places in the north of England and Scotland; where even the Kibston Pippin will not ripen, it may be brought to perfec- tion under the glass fruit ridge. x^> The figure (Fig. 15) gives but one tree trained to one wire; two rows of wire may, however, be trained under one ridge, which should be three feet wide at base, an
. The miniature fruit garden ; or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees ... Fruit-culture. APPLES AS DOUBLE LATERAL CORDOKS. 77 be rescued from spring frosts, but their fruit be ripen- ed in great perfection. There is no doubt but that in some of our cold and cloudy places in the north of England and Scotland; where even the Kibston Pippin will not ripen, it may be brought to perfec- tion under the glass fruit ridge. x^> The figure (Fig. 15) gives but one tree trained to one wire; two rows of wire may, however, be trained under one ridge, which should be three feet wide at base, and the wires ten inches asunder. It is quite possible that this method of training to galvanized wires may, in some situations, be better adapted to vine culture than allowing the vines to rest dh slates or tiles. I now, by permission, copy the de- scription of my new glass fruit ridge from my article in the Gardener's Chronicle for April 8,1865, from which I have also derived the plate kindly lent to me :— " There are no cross-bars, but merely a frame three feet wide at the base. On the top bar, a, is a groove half an inch deep; in the bottom bar, h, is a groove a quarter of an inch deep;' in the end bars, c and d, are grooves half an inch deep. The pieces of glass, which should be cut so as to fit, are pushed into the upper groove, and let fall into the lower one when all are 1 An improToment on this is to haye a rebate at bottom instead of a groove; the glass is more easily fitted Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rivers, Thomas, 1798-1877. New York, O. Judd & company
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