. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. FENCES, WALLS, AND 89 means of a rough canvas, such as is used by paperhangers to cover walls before papering, which is attached to the projecting hurdles under the coping, at B, and at foot to posts driven into the ground at an angle of 50°. This canvas covering permits the light and air and warmth to pass ; the vegetation is uninterrupted, but the protection is sufficient to exclude the strongest spring frosts. 210. Mr. Gorrie, a well-known and experienced hor
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. FENCES, WALLS, AND 89 means of a rough canvas, such as is used by paperhangers to cover walls before papering, which is attached to the projecting hurdles under the coping, at B, and at foot to posts driven into the ground at an angle of 50°. This canvas covering permits the light and air and warmth to pass ; the vegetation is uninterrupted, but the protection is sufficient to exclude the strongest spring frosts. 210. Mr. Gorrie, a well-known and experienced horticultiu*ist, found that the projecting coping added greatly to the warmth of the walls, the difference being from 4° to 11° ; and it will be readily conceded that this advantage is a very important one. At the same time the cost of permanent coping adds greatly to the cost of the wall. Mr. Gorrie proposed to train the Ayrshire rose on a projecting trellis under the coping, so as to give shelter to the fruit- trees while in blossom, the rapid spring growth of this rose being favourable for the purpose, while its deciduous habit admits of the full play of the wind in winter. 211. The Eev. John Lawrence, one of our oldest and best writers on fruit- trees, among the causes of barrenness to which he directs attention are—cold seasons, but especially frosts and hlasts in the spring. Having recourse to mats, although sometimes successful, has many objections, which put him to considering some more efficient remedy,* and it occurred to him that hori- zontal shelters presented the one needful remedy. He experimented with thin bits of board or tile, fastened to the wall, and found them to succeed to a marvel, securing fruit wherever they were placed. For this purpose he pro- poses to lay rows of tiles in the wall at distances regulated by the space between the lateral branches of the tree, and jutting forward from the plane of the wall about an inch and a half, not in continuous ro
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