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English plants, that they will find it an extremely interesting 

 amusement, and however limited may be their opportunities of 

 gathering specimens, it is well worth while to make the attempt. 

 Young persons are always prone to form collections, and surely 

 flowers are more instructive and more interesting than the baubles 

 which generally fill a young lady's cabinet. 



A DRENCHING BOARD FOR CLEANSING PLANTS. 



N using tobacco liquor, Gishurst compound, and other 

 vermin killers, there is usually a great waste, and, what 

 is perhaps worse than waste, the stuff gets into the soil, 

 and perhaps does as much harm to the plant at the root 

 as the cleansing may have done good overhead. Dipping 

 the plant head downwards cannot always be practised, and it is a 

 slow process ; the syringe often splashes the stuff where it is not 

 wanted, and in any case is wasteful. We were lately shown a con- 

 trivance in wood, invented by a gentleman who has found Gishurst 



compound an effectual vermin killer, and it struck us that a figure 

 of it would enable any of our readers either to construct it, or to 

 get it constructed at a very small cost. As may be seen by the 

 figure, it is merely a sloping board of half-inch deal, broader at the 

 top than bottom, with sides five inches high, turned at the front so 

 as to catch the rim of a pot laid on the slope, the front being open 

 for the flow of the waste into a pail. The board is mounted on legs, 

 and the dimensions are given in the cut. By placing a pail under 

 the front, and laying the plant on its side, the foliage may be syringed 



