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THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
usually kept either on the outside of the house, or, if inside, near an external 
wall, should be enclosed within a galvanized iron tube, say 1 foot square, outside the house, 
carried up beneath the water cistern, and made to serve as the smoke shaft of a coke or gas 
stove, by which the whole apparatus may be easily kept above the freezing point. It is added, 
that a small solar lamp, with the wick of the diameter of five-eighths of an inch, burnt 1 foot 
beneath a large cistern containing 2,000 gallons of water, the flame impinging on a proper 
pipe, will prevent all freezing, except a very thin coat of ice. 
- &5&E are indebted to Messrs. Carter and Co. for the use of the accom¬ 
panying figure of their Champion Moss-Curled Parsley , a very fine sort of curled 
Parsley, and which is described as being the perfection of a parsley for garnishing 
purposes, and one not to be surpassed. 
-- ESUe annex a characteristic figure of a new garden implement, called 
the Perfect Watering-Can , brought out by Mr. Le Butt, of Bury St. Edmund’s. 
It is described as having these advantages over ordinary water-cans, namely :— 
Le Butt’s Perfect Watering-Can. 
The watering can be done in about half the time; a bed 12 ft. wide can be watered without 
treading on the soil, or lifting the can to an extra height; and the watering can be effected 
with about half the usual exertion, as swinging the can is unnecessary. The water cannot fall 
in a heavy body on the ground or the plants, and large areas may be watered with ease and 
facility. We have a sample before us for trial, and can bear our testimony that it has tho 
advantages claimed for it. The invention is registered. 
