APPENDIX. 
DESCRIPTION OF A SMOKING BELLOWS, 
AND DIRECTIONS FOR USING IT. 
Although the smoking bellows used in forcing-houses, 
&c. is pretty generally known, for the benefit of those to 
whom it may not be known, it will not be improper to give 
a description of it. The common bellows used for domestic 
purposes will be proper, with the addition of a cylindrical 
copper tube about five and a half inches long, and three and a 
half inches in diameter. A pipe about eight inches long, simi- 
lar to the common bellows pipe, is fastened in the centre of 
the lower end of the tube ; a concave plate of copper must 
be riveted on the bottom in the inside, minding that the 
convex, or round side, is placed upwards, and it should have 
50 or 60 small holes in it to admit of the smoke coming out, 
and at the same time to prevent the fire and tobacco forc- 
ing out, when the bellows are in motion. The lid must have 
a socket about four inches long, fastened in its centre, 
to fix the bellows pipe within an inner plate, like the 
former described, letting the hollow side of the plate be 
next to the mouth of the pipe ; the lid must have a rim 
about an inch broad to form a socket, in which the tube 
is fastened tight. A figure of the bellows is given in the 
Encyclopedia of Gardening, page 292. When the tube is 
required to be charged, the tobacco should be made quite 
damp with a little water, or tobacco liquor would be still better. 
