WATERING, APPLIANCES FOR. 559 WATERING, APPLIANCES FOR. 



Garden Hose. The water-pot is in- 

 tended for watering surfaces that may be 

 broadly characterised as horizontal, in 

 opposition to the perpendicular surfaces of 



FIG. I. GARDEN HOSE. 



walls or the interior surfaces of roofs, for 

 which the syringe is required. It is im- 

 possible to water a perpendicular surface 

 with a watering pot with any degree of 

 ease and comfort to the operator ; it is 

 true that a tree may be sprinkled by tossing 

 the pot to and fro in upward, downward, 

 and lateral directions, but the operation is 

 too fatiguing to be continued for any length 

 of time and therefore effectual. The gar- 

 den hose, however, here comes in oppor- 

 tunely as a means by which the surface, 

 both of ground and of walls, may be readily 

 watered at one and the same time, and by 

 which, in gardens of moderate size, the 

 trouble of carrying water from its source, 

 whatever it may be, to the spot where it is 

 required, is altogether obviated. The 

 ordinary garden hose consists of vulcanised 

 india-rubber tubing, which is usually sup- 

 plied in 60 feet lengths, with brass union 

 joints, tap for controlling the issue, and 

 spreader for dispersing the water when the 

 tap is turned on, as shown in Fig. i. The 

 better way of using the hose is to connect 

 it by the junction shown in the centre of 

 the illustration to a tap fixed in a pipe 

 attached to some cistern above the level of 

 the ground or top of the wall it is proposed 

 to water. The fluid will then find its way 

 by pressure from above through the hose, 



and escape in a widely spread shower 

 through the spreader when the tap is 

 turned on. For the safe keeping of the 

 hose when out of use, and for its easy con- 

 veyance from one part of the garden 

 to another, wherever it may be re- 

 quired, hose reels of galvanised iron are 

 supplied, as shown in Fig. 2. This 

 consists of a frame with a cylinder, 

 having broad plates at each end, and 

 a handle by which the hose may be 

 IT wound and unwound between the 

 plates at pleasure, with wheels at one 

 side of the bottom of the frame on 

 which it rests when the upper end of 

 the frame is depressed, and by which the 

 whole machine can be wheeled about at 

 will, the upper part of the frame acting 

 like the handles of a wheelbarrow. Patent 



FIG. 2. IRON HOSE REEL. 



vulcanised garden hose is supplied, with 

 the necessary unions, taps, and spreaders, 

 at the following prices per yard, the prices 

 being regulated by the character of the 

 hose, as 2, 3, or 4-ply : 



