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planter which I some time ago invented for planting geor- 

 ginas and pelargoniums, &c., and which I do not recollect 

 seeing among the implements figured and described in your 



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Encyclopaedia of Gardening. It is composed of two trowels ; 

 one for making the required hole in the soil, and the other, 

 of semi-cylindrical form, for conveying the plant to the hole. 

 The conveyer is made of sheet iron, and has a round piece 

 attached to it by a hinge. When used, it is slightly com- 

 pressed, and the round piece brought within it, and fixed upon 

 a small catch opposite to the hinge ; the plant is placed in the 

 conveyer upon the round piece, and handed to the hole pre- 

 viously made by the common trowel, and by pressing the 

 round piece, on which the plant stands, gently upon the soil, at 

 the bottom of the hole, the round piece is forced off the catch, 

 the conveyer spiings open, and, by gently lifting up the 

 planter, the plant is left in the hole; the trowel is then used 

 for setting it upright, placing the soil to it, &c. The advan- 

 tage I find in the planter is its rendering trampling upon the 

 beds or borders unnecessary. I am, Sir, yours, &c. — William 

 Whiddon, Gardener. Ckichlei/, Bucks, April 30. 1833. 



Double Pots for Marsh Plants, or for shading the Roots of 

 tender Plants. — Sir, I herewith send you a plant of a little 

 favoui'ite of mine ( Villarsm reniformis). The double pot I have 

 planted it in, will be found well adapted to plants requiring 

 constant moisture. 



You will perceive that this double pot is formed by 

 simply placing one pot within another, the latter being a size 

 larger than the former [fig. 131.), and uniting them at bottom 

 with a little Roman cement. The holes 

 in the bottoms of both pots must be 

 opened with a stick before the cement 

 stiffens; otherwise, of course, the water 

 in the inner pot could not escape. In 

 the figure, a is the inner pot; b, the 

 vacuity between the two pots ; and c, 

 the cement which unites them at bot- 

 tom. By keeping the vacuity between 

 the pots [b), filled with water, the 



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