A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural . Fig. and lighter than wood. Wire is in every way fitter for tnepurpose than wood, especially for roof trellising-. The distanceat which the wires should be placed apart depends upon thekind of trees to be trained to them. For grapes, the distanceshould be 12 or 14 inches; and for peaches, nectarines, andsmall-wooded trees, not more than 8 inches. The distance ofthe wires of the roof trellis from the glass shou
A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural . Fig. and lighter than wood. Wire is in every way fitter for tnepurpose than wood, especially for roof trellising-. The distanceat which the wires should be placed apart depends upon thekind of trees to be trained to them. For grapes, the distanceshould be 12 or 14 inches; and for peaches, nectarines, andsmall-wooded trees, not more than 8 inches. The distance ofthe wires of the roof trellis from the glass should not be lessthan one foot for grapes, and for peaches and other similar treesnot less than ten inches. In properly constructed houses, thereshould always be a lower trellis, with the wires placed at doublethe distance of the others, for training the summer shoots to, toprevent the crowding of the vine branches when the trees arefull of fruit, in order that there may not be a confusion of fruitand foliage. Vines, or, indeed, any other kind of fruit trees,should never be nailed to the wood of the house; but, in allcases, trained at some distance from it, however little room theremay b
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