A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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Ireillage still stronger, run two, three, ' was effected over the walls of Sir
or more ranges of rods, along the back Joseph Banks' house; and as those
part of the uprights, a foot or eighteen
inches asunder, fastening them to the
upright stakes, either with pieces of
branches were always loaded with
fruit, the practice was soon imitated,
and gave rise, among other things, to
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strong wire twisted two or three times what is called balloon training. This
round, or by nailing them.
When the treillagc is finished, it
produces an abundance of (lowers, in
is the most sterile trees, and of fruit, when
advisable to paint tlie whole to render the branches are not exposed to severe
it both more beautiful and durable ; and
the durability is greatly increased by
charring the ends of the uprights before
night frosts, which kill the blossoms.
Just the same conseiiuences follow the
training of climbing plants downwards ;
driving them into the soil.
they are compelled to yield a far greater
Espalier Trellis made of cast iron crop of dowers than if permitted to
rods, is much more durable, and neater, grow at full length. The many kinds
than that made of wood. I of trellises that have been invented for
this purpose, are admirably adapted for
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Trellis for Climbers. — These have
been greatly improved, or rather created
within these few years, for ten years ago
we had nothing but stakes and rods.
The following observations and designs
are from the Gardener's Chronicle:—
compelling plants to grow upside down;
for the branches can be bent in all di-
rections, over and over again, and the
more they are entangled, the
is the effect produced.
prettier
" The beauty of green-houses has
been wonderfully increased, by the
contrivance of compelling these unmanageable
rambling scrambling plants,
to grow down upon themselves, or
round and round a circular trellis, so
as to be compelled to clothe themselves
all over with foliage, and to present
immediately to the eye whatever flowers
they produce. Every one who has
ever witnessed the exhibitions in the
garden of the Horticultural Society,
must have been struck with the extraordinary
beauty of the Russelias, and
Tropaolums, Lichyas, and Ilardenbergias,
red, yellow, crimson, and blue,
which have graced the stands of even
the least extensive growers. It is not
because some climbing plants require
to have their roots confined in garden
pots, nor because being, in the majority
of cases, inhabitants of tropical " The accompanying forms will be
forests, they demand more bottom-heat
than they can obtain in this country,
when planted in the open border of a
conservatory that the modern plan of
distributing their branches over the
trellis of a flower-pot, is to be so much
commended. Nor is it because the
flowers, which if the branches are uncontrolled,
arc carried out of sight by
the excessive length of the stems, are
thus brought immediately before the
eye ; but there is another great advantage
in this practice. Gardeners need
not be told that the immediate effect of
compelling branches to grow down-
wards is to make them bloom. This I
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Tiz. 169.