Implements, etc. 



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on. The syringe is used for washing, watering, destroying insedts, 

 etc. 



Garden Engine (Fig. 149). This may be used for all the pur- 

 poses of a syringe, in washing and watering plants, as well as for 

 washing windows, carriages, and protecting buildings against fire. 

 It will hold about a barrel of water, and is easily moved by its han- 

 dles on the cast-iron wheels. It will throw water forty feet high. 



Net screens are useful in preventing the attack of birds on rare 

 and valuable fruits upon young or dwarf trees. The net should be 

 dipped in tan to prevent mildew when rolled up wet. 



Labels for standard trees are useful in retaining the names of the 

 varieties. Purchasers of trees usually neglect the names, and the 

 labels received with the trees being soon lost, nothing more is 

 thought of them till they begin to bear. Curiosity is then excited 

 to know the " new kinds." Conjecture is set on foot, and the great- 

 est confusion follows. Serious and innumerable mistakes are made 

 and perpetuated in this way in all parts of the country. 



Permanent labels are therefore important. The simplest is made 

 of a slip of wood, three inches long and half an inch wide, sus- 

 pended to the branch by a loop of wire ; copper-wire is the best, 

 Fig. 1 50. The name will last three or four years, if written with a 

 pencil on a thin coat of fresh white paint. Better and more durable 

 labels are made of small pieces of sheet-zinc, written upon with a 

 mixture of two parts (by weight) of verdigris, two of sal-ammoniac, 

 one of lamp-black, and thirty of water. The ingredients are to be 

 mixed in a mortar with a small portion of water at first, and the 



