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4em would be especially valuable. The soil would be only important to 

 give fixity to the roots; therefore its quality would not be a very im- 

 portant consideration wherever the liquid tank and a brick or cement 

 flooring of the garden were provided. 



A tub would answer the purpose of a tank on a small scale, and the 

 liquid could be poured by hand from any convenient utensils down the 

 throat of an inclined pipe into the horizontal pipe below, whenever 

 moisture might be required by the roots below. There is no expense of 

 any moment involved in a simple contrivance of this nature for poor- 

 house and parochial-school gardens ; such an arrangement as Mr. Wil- 

 kins has effected would be highly economical and effective. 



The formation of a well-contrived cesspool in a convenient position 

 would be more than half the work to be accomplished. 

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