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Reviews m\d Extracts. — Uorticulture, ^’C. 
No. 35, FOB December, contains 
An account of a fVatenng Dispatcher. By Mr. Saul. 
In volume5, p.(35(), is fioMiretl and described, an utensil called the Sonde, [fig'. *15} 
which is a watering' inaclune, said to be used in the neighbourhood of Avranches; 
and where much watering in the 
open air is requisite, as in the mar¬ 
ket gardens of France and Italy. 
It is simply a cylinder, of copper, 
brass, or tin, (wood might do,) 
with the bottom fixed an inch or 
two above the lower rim, and 
pierced with holes like the rose of 
a common watering pot, to let the 
water enter and escape; and there 
is a hole in the handle of the upper 
part of the utensil, («) 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 carries 
it, places his thumb on the hole,(a) or turns the cock (4); to let the water escape, 
remove the thumb or return the cock. And in vol. 7, p. 219, is another similar 
utensil, called the Aquarian, [fig. 46] 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 improvement in Mr. Saul’s Waterer, [fig. 47] is, that the water in filling, 
has not to enter by the holes through which it is subsequently distributed ; this 
inconvenience is obviated, by moans of a lifting clack, ( , ) the se.me as used in the 
Vol. I, No. 7. BB 
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