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two and a half inches broad, to prevent cutting into 

 soft ground. A box can also be attached after the 

 barrel has been removed, making a very convenient 

 hand-cart. 



THE GARDEN ENGINE (figure 179) is an important 

 adjunct to the garden. It is especially valuable for pre- 

 venting the ravages of insects on trees where they can 

 not be reached with an implement less powerful. The 

 rapid increase of insects, worms, etc., in some portions 

 of the country, whereby fruit is destroyed and trees 

 injured, renders it necessary to wage continual war 



Fig. 179. 



against them, and it can be successfully done by spray- 

 ing with solutions of Paris green, London purple, kero- 

 sene, and other mixtures, without injury to the fruit. 

 The Garden Engine holds forty gallons of water, and 

 will throw a stream sixty feet high or a spray forty feet 

 high. It can be procured with a suction attachment, 

 whereby it can fill its own box from a pond or cistern. 



