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APPLIANCES 
3] FEW special appliances may be of great use to the 
grower who is altogether confined within the 
house, who has no garden or place for frames or 
pits. In his case some arrangement for keeping 
a little soil and manure in a proper way should be 
made. A good, strong wooden box with special departments 
for the various kinds of soils, and manures, and also 
one for pots, watering-cans, sponges, sprayers, etc., 
would be very useful. ‘This could easily be kept in the 
cellar or any other out-of-the 
way place where potting, clean- 
ing, and other rough work could 
be done. One or two sieves and 
a few shallow boxes for car- 
rying soil, for potting and for 
shifting plants, ought to be kept, 
as also a spade for mixing soil. A 
Watering Can with Rose. 6 a 
sufficient number of pots in all 
sizes, and a few shallow pans for propagating, should 
always be handy. A good watering-pot of the flat 
approved pattern, not too large for using in a room, and for 
Scollay 
Bulb. 
spraying foliage a Scollay bulb, which can be used in any room 
without moistening carpets or furniture. A small brass hand- 
