1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



417 



GREEN HOUSE ENGINE. 

 The Messrs. Cowing & Co., of Seneca Falls, 

 N. Y., have been i^nown for years as the manufac- 

 turers of iron pumps of various patterns, chain 

 pumps, garden engines, &c. This year they have 

 introduced a new green house engine — a repre- 

 sentation of which accompanies this article. It 

 consists of a small force pump firmly fastened into 

 an iron pail. It can be carried quite easily when 

 full, to any desired spot, and can be worked with 

 one hand. We have one in our ])ossession whicli 

 we have tried, and find it will ihrow a small stream 



a distance of 40 feet, and at the rate of two or 

 three gallons a minute. Simply for watering 

 plants, the necessity of renewing the supply of 

 water so often would make it of little more value 

 than the common watering pot, but in washing 

 windows or carnages, in throwing water to the 

 centre of flower-beds which cannot be easily 

 reached in liquid manuring, or in throwing such 

 compositions as soap suds, tobacco water, &c., 

 upon the foliage of trees and plants for the de- 

 struction of insects, it appears to us to be a valua- 

 ble article. The price is $S,00, and it would be 

 hard for any one not to realize the interest of this 

 outlay from its use 



STEEL AMALGAM BELLS. 



Messrs. Cowing & Co. have also sent us one of 

 their new bells, made of the above material. They 

 are of several sizes, and designed for farms, en- 

 gine-houses, school-houses, churches, &c. The ma- 



terial of which these bells are constructed gives 

 them strength and sonorousness, and at the same 

 time enal)les the manufacturers to sell them at a 

 price mucli less than other bells of the same 

 weight. We can remember the sound of the din- 

 ner liorii v\-hich we used often to hear in our 

 younger days, and can remember, also, that it took 

 a powerful pair of lungs to make it heard at any 

 considerable distance. In those days, we should 

 have been glad to have had the bell speak for us ; 

 and we doubt not there are many farms now, be- 

 yond the reach of the steam whistle, where one of 

 these bells Avould be a welcome signal of the din- 

 ner hour, and where its stirring tones at sunrise, 

 its warning voice in case of fire or accident, and 

 its merry peal on festive occasions, would more 

 than Day its cost. 



GRAPE CULTURE. 



The following is a postscript to a letter, received 

 a few days ago from our much esteemed old 

 friend, whose name is signed to it. His success 

 in grafting the grape is very satisfactory : — 



Shall I inform you of my success in grafting the 

 grape-vine this spring? This morning I set grafts 

 of the last two varieties on hand. I grafted the 

 first about the middle of March on to the begin- 

 ning of April, then stopped until about the mid- 

 dle of June; then, as time would permit, stuck in 

 a few occasionally until this day, 2d July — all in 

 the roots, or in branches laid underground. Many 

 of the grafts have already made a growth of four 

 inches to four feet, one is bearing a cluster of 

 fruit and some of those grafted ten days to two 

 weeks, are pushing already. Of about one hun^ 

 dred grafts set, at least eighty will grow ; and of 

 these one hundred grafts, representing thirty va- 

 rieties, I will have every variety to grow ! 



Last yearns grafting are noiv strong jylnnts, 

 hearing from one to a dozen branches of fruit. 

 By this mode of propagation a new variety may 

 be fruited the second year for certain ; while in 

 planting the delicate, forced pot plants we must 

 wait four to six years before fruit can be looked 

 for "Time is money" in more ways than one. — 

 / B. Oarber, in Qermantown Telegraph. 



