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TJic Country Gentlenmiis Magazine 



A CHEAP FUMIGATOR. 



Every professional gardener knows how to 

 smoke or fumigate a plant-house, but it often 

 puzzles the amateur how to do it. There is 

 besides, a certain class of men calling them- 

 selves gardeners, who surely do not under- 

 stand the method, or we should not so often 

 see house-plants so covered with aphides, 

 &c. Moreover, we are quite certain that no 

 gardener could endure seeing his plants thus 

 poisoned. To fumigate a house is the simplest 

 matter possible. Get four flower-pots — tv/o 

 small and two a good fair size, in proportion 

 to the work to be done. Set the small pots 

 bottom upward, a small distance apart; get a 

 few live coals in one of the larger pots and 

 set it on the bottoms of the small ones ; this 

 will leave the hole in the bottom clear for 

 draft — put tobacco paper on the hot coals 

 — turn the other large pot bottom upward. on 

 the one containing the tobacco, &c., and it 



will burn right away. Another plan is, not 

 to use fire, but instead, a short piece of candle 

 stuck in a piece of clay placed beneath the 

 hole of the pot containing the tobacco. Be 



A cheap Fumigator. 



sure the foliage of the plants is dry, that the 

 house is cool, and that the tobacco does not 

 blaze, and no harm will be done unless the 

 quantity used be excessive. 



A GARDENER'S STOOL. 



Any invention which eases or facilitates 

 the labour of gardening is sure to be ac- 

 ceptable to villa gardeners, and especially 

 those who cultivate their gardens with their 

 own hands. The stool which we now illus- 

 trate we saw in use in the market-gardens 

 of Paris upwards of twenty years ago ; but it 

 has recently been appropriated by an " in- 

 ventor " in the United States, who has made 

 it the subject of a patent. The stool vv'ill be 

 found very useful in all gardening operations 

 where stooping is necessary when it forms a 

 convenient support. 



The stool is strapped to, and carried by, 

 the foot, leaving the hands free, so that when- 

 ever the operator desires he may sit upon the 

 pad or seat. The same device is applicable 



as a milking stool, and perhaps for other 

 purposes where it is desirable to avoid the 



A Gardener's Stool. 



fatigue of continued or often-repeated stoop- 



ine. 



