. An encyclopædia of gardening; . ing. 197 1436. The birdtrap-cage (Jig. 197.) is a wickerutensil with a funnel, tlirough which the bird ha\ingdescended in quest of the bait placed within 5 cannotaicend. It is successfully employed to catch youngsparrows. 1437. The earwig and beetle trap {Jig. 198.) isoften only a hollow cylinder, but from this, if nottaken regularly at certain seasons, the insects close box, with an inverted truncated cone ofglass in the centre as a hgpper, is better ; becausewhen earwigs, beetles, wood-lice, or such insectsenter, they cannot escape, and may be drowT
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . ing. 197 1436. The birdtrap-cage (Jig. 197.) is a wickerutensil with a funnel, tlirough which the bird ha\ingdescended in quest of the bait placed within 5 cannotaicend. It is successfully employed to catch youngsparrows. 1437. The earwig and beetle trap {Jig. 198.) isoften only a hollow cylinder, but from this, if nottaken regularly at certain seasons, the insects close box, with an inverted truncated cone ofglass in the centre as a hgpper, is better ; becausewhen earwigs, beetles, wood-lice, or such insectsenter, they cannot escape, and may be drowTied orscalded, or suffered to die there. The common baitis crumbs of bread. 14-38. The wasp and Jiy trap, is merely a bottle half full of water honied at tliemouth to entice fheir entrance. Some assert that the plant hoya carnosa, whilst inbloom, will attract wasps and all other insects from the fruit in the house in which itgrows (Maher, inHort. Trans, vol. i. 197.) ; and others tliat boiled carrots will have thesame Sect. IV. Machines. 1439. Machines are agents for abridging rnanual labor. All the operations of gar-dening may be performed by the simple tools, instruments, or utensils, already mentioned;but in practice some labors would be insufferably tedious, and others inconvenientlycumbersome ; and in many operations, the ordinary force of man could not be convenientlybrought into action. Rollers, as opposed to the turf-beetle, are illustrative of the firstcase ; the German devil, and Bramahs hydrostatic press, as opposed to a number ofmen with ropes or levers, of the second ; and tlie boat-scythe, as perfoiming the oper-ations of the pincers or common scythe, of the third case. But the machines of gar-dening are very few, and chiefly artificial contrivances for tlie defence of gardens orscientific machines for measurement or designation of temperature. In contriving eitlier 288 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Pakt II. of these, simplicity ought to be attended to; for a co
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