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cloth. There is a false front to each drawer, three inches 

 back. The upright posts are two and one-half feet apart. 

 The drawers are 3^ feet long, and with the false front, three 

 inches back • this gives a three-inch space at each end of the 

 drawers for free circulation of air. The end drawers are four 

 inches deep and five feet long and are used to finish on. 

 Have four extra drawers and have some extra front pieces to 

 put in and close up the openings when the drawers are out. 

 The sheet-iron fenders, A B, extend the whole length, to dis- 

 tribute the hot and cold air. The cold air enters the ventila- 

 tors below A, and is divided by B. The arch C is sheet iron 

 with a 2-inch flange resting on the wall of the furnace, which 

 is two feet high and two feet wide, laid in mortar. The top 

 course of brick is laid in mortar on the flange, to prevent the 

 escape of smoke. The building is ioj^ feet long, 7 feet high 

 and 4 feet wide. DD are connecting-rods attached to the ven- 

 tilators. The furnace can be built below the surface on slop- 

 ing ground. The amount of heat is great, and the thing to 

 be observed closely is to admit plenty of cold air through the 

 ventilators." — J. W. Beach, in Farm and Fireside; reported in 

 Popular Gardening, 245. 



Blackberry-Trellis. — (Fig. 44.) "My plan is to take 

 good fence-posts, five feet in length, set one at each end of a 



row, 3^ feet 

 in the ground, 

 leaving twenty 

 inches above 

 ground. I use 

 z f No. 12 gal- 

 vanized wire 

 ^ . and draw it as 



tightly as possible. However long the rows may be, a post 

 set firmly at each end is sufficient. After the canes are tied 

 to the wire they form a perfect support, and there are no 

 stakes in the way of the hoe. I top my canes at three feet, 

 just the right height to be handy for the pickers. By running 

 the wires 20 inches from the ground they pass below the 

 branches, so that it is much more convenient to tie them, and 

 less twine is required, while the tops are in better shape for 

 picking." — F. A. Trout, in Rural New-Yorker, 243. 



Celery-Blancher. — (Fig. 45.) A patented device which 



