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No. 35, FOR December, contains 
Ah account of a IVatering Dispatcher. By Mr. Saul. 
In volume 5, p. 656, is fig-iired and described, an utensil called the Sonde, [figf. 45] 
which is a watering' machine, said to be used in the neighbourhood of Ar ranches 5 
and where much watering in the a 
open air is requisite, as in the mar- 
ket gardens of !• ranee and Italy. 
It is simply a cylinder, of copper, 
brass, or tin, (wood nii^ht do,) 
with the battom fixed an inch or 
two above the lower rim, and 
pierced with holes like the rose of 
a common watering pot, to let the >4I 
water enter and escape ; and there '^^1^^^ 
is a hole in the handle of the upper ^ s.h. sc. 
part of the utensil, [a) to let the air escape when filling with water ; the way to 
do which, is to plunge it in a well or cistern, and when full, the person who carrie* 
it, places his thumb on the hole,(«) or turns the cock [b); to let the water escape, 
remove the thumb or return the cock. Audio vol. 7, p. 219, is another similar 
utensil, called the Aquarian, [fig. 4G] by Mr. J. Murray, who says it is admirably 
adapted for tender exotics. Its intermission is under the most perfect control; it 
is filled in the same way as the last, and 47 
the supply is retained by the fall of the 
lever, («) which renders it air-tight; or 
the finger may be used to cover the hol« 
instead of the lever. 
S. H. sc. 
The improvement in Mr. Saul's Waterer, [fig. 47] is, that the water iafiHijiJig* 
has not to enter by the holes through which it is subsequently distributed ; this 
inconvenience is obviated, by means of a lifting clack, (»/) the same as used in the 
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