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Recollections of a Gardening Tour. 



Fig. 69. Moss-Scraper. 



being applied to the stems or trunks ; c c are the wooden 

 handles; d is used for cutting off small spray; and e for scrap- 

 ing the clefts and small branches. 



Stirrup Iron, with Lantern and Lamp attached. 



Peat Flower-pot, made of compressed Peat. From Mr. Murray, 

 gardener at Taymouth Castle, who finds the plants thrive remark- 

 ably well in these. 



Telescope Branch for a Garden Syringe. Used for reaching 

 to the higher shelving in greenhouses. 



Peas Stob [Stake] of Cast Iron. {fig. 70.) Used for placing 

 at intervals along the r _n 

 rows, the peas being 

 supported by running 

 tarred twine, or small 

 rods, from one stake 

 to another. 

 Paling Hammer Iron. 



Galvanic Plant-Pro- 

 tector, [fig. 71.) In 

 the shape of a flower- 

 pot without a bottom, 

 and made of zinc, with 

 a border of copper 



Fig. 70. Cast-iron 

 Peas Stake. 



Fig. 72. Section of the 

 Coal Field at West Plean. 



of the strata ac- 

 This model is 

 Peter 



placed at b b. 



Section of Plean Coal 

 Field, (fig. 72.) Constructed with specimens 

 cording to a scale, as before noticed (p. 597.) 

 much admired. It is the invention and execution of Mr 

 Mackenzie, gardener at West Plean, near Stirling. 



Models of the different Kinds of Drains. 



Specimen qfSherriff's White-seeded Tare. This variety grows 

 luxuriantly, and promises well. A plant from Rochester Seed 

 Store, United States, under the name of grass pea, yields abun- 

 dance of foliage. 



A Stalk, 12 ft. in length, of the M.elilbt/ts leucantha, or Bok- 

 hara Clover ; also various cut Specimens, from Seed sown in May 

 last, 1842. The stem of this plant acquires a degree of hard- 

 ness at even an early stage of its growth, which may prove an 

 objection to its further cultivation. 



Model of a self-acting Canal Lock, by Mr. Smith of Deans- 

 ton. 



