. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. ierate its circulation. This system obviates the necessity of cleaning the flues, which is found difficult in practice; while hot water, which is advocated in some places, is found too expensive for ordinary use. 207. Coping to garden walls has been a "much-vexed" question, and pro- bably many practical men retain their own system, without paying much attention to theories; for, in gardening, a common-sense application of the means at hand, and taking everything
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. ierate its circulation. This system obviates the necessity of cleaning the flues, which is found difficult in practice; while hot water, which is advocated in some places, is found too expensive for ordinary use. 207. Coping to garden walls has been a "much-vexed" question, and pro- bably many practical men retain their own system, without paying much attention to theories; for, in gardening, a common-sense application of the means at hand, and taking everything at the right time, is of more importance than the best- formed theory imperfectly carried out. It seems very well settled, however, that a stone coping, projecting an inch or two over the wall on each side, is necessary for the protection of the wall from the effects of rain, and to that extent that the coping is useful in retarding the radiation of heat. Mr. Walker recommends a coping, as improving the appearance, and necessary for protection from the weather; and he adds, that a coping of slate flags, two inches thick, bevilled off to three-fourths of an inch at the edges on each side, which he saw in the gardens of Mr. Walker, of Preskelly, Pembrokeshire, is one of the simplest and most efficient he had seen. "These projections," he says, *' greatly enhance the conservative power of the ; Ho proceeds to condemn the practice of fitting wire or wood trellis on the face of the wall, as interfering with this conservative power. "A space intervenes betwixt the trees and the wall, where the heated air escapes at the small angle of divergence, in consequence of the greater lightness of the air, caused by rarefaction, while the constant flowing of the denser and colder current to supply its place produces a current which destroys the forcing power of the ; He arrives at the conclusion that the only eligible mode of training trees on an open wall i
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