The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 188
thetops and bottoms, about 1 ft. fromeach end. Get a similar hole drilledup the centre of a stake, and saw it offin lengths of 2 in., or rather less; passa strong wire or thick tarred stringthrough one stake, by the holes at thetop and at the bottom ; then pass itthrough the hole made in one of… … Dimensions of some Trees at Poloc, Lanarkshire. 167 Place it round the tree, and fasten the ends of the wire or string.The guard is much the same as the cradle put round the neck ofa blistered horse, to prevent his gnawing the irritated part. Thestakes merely rest on the ground, and should be cut…
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