. 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. 304 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. of coping. On the other hand, copings which have a considerable projection are known to protect wall-trees from spring frosts. We prefer for this purpose moveable copings. (1493.) 1558. The brick and stone wall is a sto
. 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. 304 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. of coping. On the other hand, copings which have a considerable projection are known to protect wall-trees from spring frosts. We prefer for this purpose moveable copings. (1493.) 1558. The brick and stone wall is a stone wall faced with four inches of brick-work, or what is called brick and bed, on the side most exposed to the sun, as on the south sides of east and west walls, and on the insides for the sake of appearance of the two end, or north and south walls of enclosed gardens. Where free-working stone abounds on the spot, such walls are erected at much less expense than walls entirely of brick. Whether they are as dry, durable, and warm, depends on the sort of stone ; some schistous and other argillaceous stones are apt to be damp, but compact limestones may be accounted as good as brick, and if they are of a dark grey or blue color, better on account of their absorption and refraction of heat. 1559. The solid brick zvall is the simplest of all garden-walls, and where the height does not exceed 6 feet, 9 inches in thickness will suffice ; when above that to 13 feet, 14 inches, and when from 13 to 20 feet, 18 inches in width are requisite. In most cases, such walls may be contracted in width as they are carried up, so that a 20 feet wall may begin with 18, and terminate in 9 inches in breadth. The contraction must be gradual from bottom to top ; or if accomplished by rebates, they must be bevelled, by means of a course of sloping-edged or flanched bricks at each set off; and these must be made exactly alike on both sides of the wall, in order to preserve its centre of gravity exactly i
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