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though beneficial ventilation, and give a means of carrying or shifting 

 the cloche with one hand only. I am informed that there will be no 

 difficulty in making them thus without additional trouble or expense, 

 as soon as the firm who will undertake their manufacture in England 

 have full preparations made. When not in use the careful cultivator 

 puts his cloches in some bye-place, in little piles of half a dozen in 

 each, a piece of wood not more than half an inch thick and an inch 

 and a half square being placed between each, so as to prevent them 

 from settling down on each other. Workmen used to them carry two 

 or three in each hand in conveying them from place to place, by 

 putting a finger between each. In commencing to use them in our 

 gardens it would be well to see that they are placed in some spot 

 where they will not be in danger of breakage. The cloche must not 

 be confounded with the dark and very large bell-glass that was in 

 common use many years ago in our market-gardens, and which may 

 yet be seen here and there. These were even dearer than the hand- 

 Fig. 80. 



The cloche as used in the propagating -house. 



glasses by which they were driven out of use. The French cloche 

 does not cost one-fourth so much as a hand-light and moreover does 

 not require both painter, glazier, and plumber for keeping it in 

 repair. It will prove a distinct improvement in every class of garden. 



" How to procure these cloches has hitherto been the great difficulty. 

 Many have been deterred from employing them by the trouble, 

 expense, and loss consequent on ordering them from France, and I 

 have always despaired of their becoming useful to cultivators generally 

 till they are produced in England at a cheap rate. Even if the 

 carriage was not as heavy as it is, the risk of conveying such very 

 fragile articles across the Channel is such as would prevent iis from 

 getting them in a satisfactory way. 



" I am pleased to announce that Messrs. E. Breffit and Co., pro- 

 prietors of the Aire and Calder Glass Bottle Company's Works in 

 Yorkshire, well known for its productions, are making preparations 

 for their manufacture on an extensive scale. They will be able to 

 supply them soon, and will have an abundant stock by the time it is 



