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GAEDENING FOE THE SOUTH. 



The Standing-Laddee is also indispensable in the fruit 

 garden. It should be made light, with flat steps. 

 The supports are two sticks of light timber fixed 

 to the top, with hooks and straps, to be expanded 

 or contracted at pleasure. It should be six 

 or eight feet high. 



The Oechaedist's Hook is a light rod with 

 a hook at the end, with a movable piece of wood 

 which slides upon the rod, as in figure 32. The 

 branches to be gathered from are brought near 

 by the hooked end, and retained in place by 



P hooking the sliding-piece over another branch. 

 Gaeden Engines. — These are made of wood 

 or iron in many forms, and act upon the Princi- 

 pe 33 pie of the forcing pump. The tubes should be 

 made very strong, or they will be likely to burst 

 in case of any obstruction. They are very convenient for 

 watering on an 

 extended scale, as 

 in plantations of 

 strawberries, etc. 

 Wateeing-Pots 

 are well - known 

 implements, very 

 necessary in a 

 garden or green-house (figure 33). 



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-WATERING POT. 



Fig. 34.— FRENCH WATERING POT, 



Fig. 33. 



The best are of cop- 

 There should be two or 

 three roses of different fineness 

 Hang them so the water can 

 run out, when not in use. Tin 

 ones should be painted oc- 

 casionally, to prevent rusting. 

 In the French watering-pot, 

 figure 34, by the peculiar 

 construction of the handle, 

 the weight is more easily 



