40 DREER’S VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS. 
We here present a picture of a cheap, practical and 
effective scheme for watering an extensive plat or border. 
The picture is drawn from a photograph made on the large, 
well-kept place of the Messrs. Hittinger Brothers, at Bel- 
mont, Massachusetts. 
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The essential feature of the scheme is an elevated two- 
inch central pipe, running the length of the plat. It is held 
up by iron posts made of pipe. A horse can pass under the 
main horizontal supply pipe. The water pressure is 25 lbs. 
to the square inch. At points say 18 feet apart cross pipes 
extending twelve feet in both directions are inserted, as 
shown in the picture. At the end of each lateral pipe is an 
umbrella (revolving) sprinkler. The weight of the sprinkler 
and small lateral pipe is supported by a wooden stake or pole. 
At the Hittinger establishment this scheme of irrigation 
covers about an acre of ground. Sixty sprinklers are 
