GARDEN UTENSILS. 



a great saving of time and labor is effected. [Some adaptation of this idea might be use 

 fuL] 



Figure 2 represents a new pot constructed to prevent worms from entering at the 

 bottom, in some gardens, 

 where the earth is rich, the 

 earth-worms are very trou- 

 blesome, especially when the 

 ground is damp. In these 

 localities the worms crawl in- 

 to the pots by means of the 

 hole at the bottom, and if 

 they commit little injury in 

 the open ground, they are not 

 so harmless among the roots 

 confined in a pot. In order 

 to obviate the evil arising 

 from their intrusion, the new 

 form of pot represented at 

 figure 2, has been invented by 

 M. Ghj'selin, potter at Brus- 

 sels. The bottom is distin- 

 guished by having three feet, which are only prolongations of the pot. The bottom is 

 thus raised above the ground, and the worms are thereby prevented from entering at the 

 hole. This pot has also the advantage of facilitating the circulation of air, and prevent- 

 ing the stagnation of water. [Worms, however, do not alwaj's enter garden-pots through 

 the drainage hole, but sometimes, especially in small pots, from the top. Against this the 

 proposed form offers no safeguard. After all, the best plan is to take care on what foun- 

 dation the pots are set.] 



Among the useful horticultural contrivances, may be noticed the iron trellis, represented 

 at figure, 3, which combines solidity, elegance and lightness, qualities never found together 

 in wooden trellises. The iron trellis, too, preserves all the forms or shapes which are given 

 to it, and one may thus train plants in all the varied styles which are otherwise inapplica- 

 ble. The form which is used has a circular head, like a parasol, consisting of four wires, 

 which are bent and sustained in their position by three circles or hoops, the undermost 

 considerably stouter than the others. The stem is supported at the base by three prongs, 

 which are made so as to admit of being fixed in the ground or in a pot. This form, when 

 made from three to four feet high, produces a very good effect, when used to support such a 

 plant as Calystegia pubescens, which looks remarkably well trained to this form of trellis. 

 This same form may be used in training climbing roses, in pots or in the open' ground; 

 their branches being led over the arches so as to cover the whole, present a mass of flow- 

 ers in the summer time. 



