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21. The Wheelbarrow, — An implement constantly in use 

 to fetch and carry ; and the Water-barrow, to take a quantity 

 for supplying the water-pots. 



22. Hand-glasses and Bell-glasses, for protection and 

 propagation. 



23. Steps and Ladders, for pruning fruit-trees and getting 

 fruit : these must be according to your wants and of several 

 sizes. 



24. Nails of all sorts, and shreds for nailing fruit-trees and 

 climbers on walls or house fronts. 



25. Garden Eollers, broad ; and, if there be any geo- 

 metrical garden with gravel walks, you must have one narrow, 



26. Bass ]\Iatting is one of the most useful materials in the 

 garden. It is used for all sorts of ties when plants are sup- 

 ported by sticks. Pink and carnation buds are tied up with 

 it. Gardeners use it for blanching lettuce, early cabbage, 

 and endive ; for tying on the grafts of trees and buds of 

 roses and the plum tribe ; for covering the frames and lights 

 of cucumbers and melons ; in short, it is used for shade in 

 summer and warmth in winter. AYlien a mat is wanted to be 

 used for ties, it should be at once unravelled, the finer 

 portions put in one place for light tying, such as hot and 

 greenhouse plants, buds, (fee. ; the coarser sort for heavy 

 tying, such as dahlias, hollyhocks, &c. to their stakes. These 

 bass mats come from Eussia, and are sold at all the 

 nurseries. 



27. Fumigating-bellows. — These are made several differ- 

 ent ways. A Mr. Bro"\\Ti, of the Customs, we believe, patented 

 one which had a circular box, in which a wheel was rapidly 

 turned to create the wind ; and a new one upon a still better 



priuciple has recently been invented by a Mr. which is 



more effective : the old bellows for fumigation is rarely seen. 

 The tobacco in all cases is lighted within an iron case, and 

 the wind goes through it. 



28. Garden Line. — This is essential for all kinds of plant- 

 ing : being stretched tight, you may walk along it and leave 

 the mark on the ground, then stretch it as far off as your 

 rows are to be apart and make a second, and so continue 

 until you have marked all the piece with lines one way ; you 

 may then cross them at proper distances, so that a plant goes 

 in at every place where the lines cross. 



29. Labels for Plants. — Practice has long decided that 



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