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pipes dispenses with the cost of having to provide special heating apparatus ; 
and, moreover, it is always available for use whilst the pipes are heated. 
The third and smaller portable class of propagators are simple contrivances 
for placing on hot-water pipes. They are very convenient for owners of small 
greenhouses who have hot-water piping, and only need to propagate a few 
plants occasionally. There are two kinds, and both are patented articles. 
One (Fig. 13) is an earthenware pan, measuring fourteen inches long, six and 
half inches wide, and six inches deep. Inside the pan is a perforated movable 
iaise Dottom witn a projecting tuDe in me centre, the bottom resting on 
supports fixed half way up the depth of the pan. The bottom part is of 
concave shape, and is so formed that it fits on the top of a four-inch hot-water 
pipe. The lower half of the pan is filled with water, and in the upper half 
