On the Bygrave Shuj-Preventer, ^c. 
445 
The value of this invention, I imagine will, after a fair trial, be 
a})preciated by every description of gardener, from the amateur who 
carefully watches his favourite ranunculus or carnation bed, to the 
market-gaidener, whose profits are affected by the success of hiu let- 
tuce or cabbage plants. 
71 
The "Bygrave Slug Preventer," is manufactured by Mr. Forster, 
plumber, Newport, Isle-of- Wight. Any considerable number of feet 
could be made at about three-pence half-penny per foot; for a small 
order, probably a half-penny a foot more might be charged, but I may 
observe that the thing will last for an age. 
To the talented young lady whose name has been mentioned above, 
florists are also indebted for the invention of a new support for the 
blossoms of plants, which is particularly well calculated to display 
pinks to advantage, but would answer for numerous other flowers. It 
consists of a ring of wire six inches in diameter, run through the tops 
of two strips of wood, about fifteen inches long, and as thick as a man's 
little finger, which are placed in opposite positions on the ring, for legs. 
Fifty of these wires cost half-a-crown, and the little strips or sticks 
for that number, and painting of them green, might come to another 
Note. — The plants introduced into the engraving, are — 
c Sparnxis llneata. — A bulbous plant, requiring a pit or a warm border of sandy loam and 
peat. The flower is white, with a yellow throat marked with brown; each petal marked 
with a red line. 
d Vieussei'ixia jiaucijpis — See pages 266 and 279. CoNDucreRs. 
