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to profit by any new device that may be of unusual merit, and 

 to keep ahead of his competitors. On the other hand I can 

 hardly advise the gardener of moderate means to invest in every 

 new implement as soon as put on the market under high claims. 

 Progressiveness in this respect may well and profitably be tem- 

 pered with quite a considerable amount of conservatism. Among 

 implements not yet in market, but sadly needed, I would mention, 

 i) a contrivance for mixing paris green and land-plaster in a rapid, 

 safe, convenient and thorough manner ; 2) a cheap portable pump 



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or apparatus for spraying plants with liquid poisons and fungi- 

 cides ; 3) an implement for pulverizing the soil in the bottom of 

 deep furrows when preparing them for planting potatoes ; 4) a 

 more convenient garden-marker than any described in this work 

 one to be pushed rather than pulled cheap and simple, etc. 



