226 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. [Dec'r 



.fs ram, hot water apparatus and tank system 1 — Very little. We must 

 awaken ; we have slept too long — the sun of agriculture has long been 

 risen ; we must haste to make up with it. If our employers have N 

 $3000 a-year to spend in gardening, and we can invent machinery or 

 suggest ideas by which we can get as ^much done, and as well, for 

 $2,000, we have $1,000 saved to increase the beauty of the estab- 

 lishment, employ an extra hand, and add to the glory and honour of 

 American gardening. Thus, and thus only can we expect to compete 

 with British Horticulturists — America is pre-eminently the country for 

 ideas and machinery. Let Horticulture not be forgotten in its appli- 

 cation. 



Following out these ideas we would call attention to the use of putty 

 in glazing. It is a source of continual annoyance, drip, and expense, 

 while it can be entirely dispensed with. Every one accustomed to hot 

 houses especially, is aware of the constant re-puttying they require. — 

 It can be dispensed with in the following manner : Let the glass be 

 cut to fit the sash, but not too tightly, or it will break by the expansion 

 of the wood ; then the rabets being first painted with rather thick paint, 

 lay in the glass as in common glazing, then paint them in ; when dry 

 give it another coat, if you like. We have recently seen some glazing 

 on this system, and it "can't be beat." The "putty never peels off," of 

 course the glass is as firm as possible, and there is not the least begin- 

 ning of a leak. Where the sashes are very steep, the squares might 

 be tacked in by small triangular tacks, such as is used for tacking in 

 squares in greenhouse doors ; but from the firmness of the specimens 

 we recently examined, we believe this will be found to be unnecessary. 

 Not only is this system, (which we shall call the American system,) 

 cheaper in the end, than the putty system, but also in theirs* cost. If 

 the present mode be properly performed, the rabets should be painted 

 before the placing in of the glass, and after they have been puttied, 

 they are again painted. The "American" system asks no more. * 



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 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



In a country like this, where Agriculture is the occupation of so 

 large a proportion of the inhabitants — where so much of the produce is 

 exported for the sustenance of the people of other countries more dense- 

 ly populated — where the soil is still, comparatively speaking, unex- 

 hausted, or still remaining undisturbed by the plough; and the resources 

 for the extension of remunerative agriculture inexhaustible — it must 

 be a matter of surprise to many that as yet nothing has been done to- 

 wards establishing a system of Agricultural education. No National 

 ( or State machinery yet set in motion to accomplish so desirable an ob- jh 

 ) ject as the education on sound principles of the rising generation of(*j 



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