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IV. Account of a Method of conveying Water to Plants, in 

 Houses, invented by Mr. George Loddiges of Hackney. 

 By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. fyc. Secretary. 



Read December 2, 1817. 



I have great pleasure in communicating to the Horticul- 

 tural Society the particulars of a plan for watering plants, in 

 houses, invented by Mr. George Loddiges, one of the Part- 

 ners in the firm of Messrs Loddiges and Sons, of Hackney, 

 whose extensive nursery gardens are well known to every 

 collector of rare and valuable plants. 



The plan I am about to describe is most simple in its 

 operation, and not only supplies water to the plants, without 

 labour, but in a way that must be more beneficial than the 

 usual one, by a watering-pot. 



A leaden pipe of half an inch bore, is introduced into one 

 end of the house, in such a situation that the stop-cock, 

 which is fixed in it, and which is used for turning on the 

 supply of water, may be within reach : it is then carried 

 either to the upper part, or the back of the house, or to the 

 inside of the ridge of the glass frame-work, being continued 

 horizontally, and in a straight direction, the whole extent of 

 the house, and fastened to the wall, or rafters, by iron staples, 

 at convenient distances. From the point where the pipe 

 commences its horizontal direction, it is perforated with mi- 

 nute holes, through each of which the water, when turned on, 



