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does not require painter, plumber and glazier for keeping it in 

 repair. 



How to procure these cloches has hitherto been a difficulty. 

 Many haye been deterred from employing them by the trouble, 

 expense, and loss consequent on ordering them from France. 

 Messrs. E. Breffit and Co., proprietors of the Aire and Calder 

 Glass-bottle Company's Works in Yorkshire, well known for its 

 productions, now produce them on an extensive scale. It is well 

 that the manufacture of the cloche has been taken up by a firm 

 with every means of carrying it on in the best manner, and with 

 stores in the North and in Liverpool, as well as in London. Messrs. 

 Breffit and Co.'s offices are at 83, Upper Thames Street, E.G. ; 

 their stores at Free Trade Wharf, Broad Street, Eatcliff, E., and at 



The Cloclie as used in the Propagating liouse. 



120, Duke Street, Liverpool— and their manufactory at Castleford, 

 near Normanton, Yorkshire, at any of which addresses orders will 

 be taken and executed as soon as possible. They can also, of 

 course, be obtained through various retail glass-houses. 



Cabbiage fok tkanspokting OKANGE-TKEES.-The fashion of 

 growing large Orange-trees in tubs is so general in France that 

 some efficient means of moving them from place to place is 

 necessary Many contrivances have been tried, and several are 

 in use but the best and handiest is that employed for the carriage 

 of the large specimens in the gardens of the Tuileries. For 

 the following notice of it I am indebted to the late Mr. John 

 Gibson • " The machine used in the gardens of the Tuileries for 

 removing large Orange-trees in tubs, of which a longitudinal 

 representation is here given, is the most useful contrivance I have 



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