Temporary copings of wood, which may be fixed by means of permanent iron brackets just below the stone coping, are extremely useful in spring for the protection of the blossoms of fruit trees.
Stone copings are best, but they are costly, and Portland cement is sometimes substituted.
These copings should be removed when they are of no further utility as protectors, so that the foliage may have the full benefit of rain and dew.
The constructive elements of the grim ramparts are Roman, but mediaeval additions and copings have been interpolated from time to time so that they scarcely look their age.
As a rule these overhanging copings occur principally on the southern exposures of the buildings and on the terraced sides of house rows.
The thin slabs of stone, which had to be brought from a great distance, came to be used only for the more exposed portions of buildings, such as copings on walls and borders around roof openings.
Two forms of rebated joints for stone copings and roofs are common.
The fewer the number of joints the better the security, and for this reason it is well to form copingswith as long stones as possible.
The copings on the backs of these buttresses are not weathered like those of the nave, and, except the one next the transept, each is covered with lead.
Traces of the earlier gable copings are still bedded in their original places in the walling.
The gables between the buttresses are gone, as is the case on the south side; but traces of their old copings remain.
On landing at the wharf we perceived that the granite copings had suffered more than the brickwork, and that the stone had split up and splintered where it was struck.
Their lawns were growing a little ragged, their stone steps andcopings revealing cracks.
The trees were dying along the asphalt and in the yards, the iron fences broken here and there, the copings stained with rust and soot.
And on many a bulging headland and lower ridge there lay heavy, over-curling copings and smooth, white domes where wind-driven snow was pressed and wreathed and packed into every form and in every possible place and condition.
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