Archive image from page 621 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode00john Year: 1847 WAT 628 W E A fixed a brass rod, which is kept in its , hand or the left: by drawing up the place by a collar brazed to the side of spring 6 with the forefinger, the valve the pot. In raising, the rod is pressed is raised by means of the connecting rod by the finger. No. 2 represents the im- : 5, and consequently the water flows provements, which consist in a double , into the tubes 1 and 2; as soon as the lever, acting like the key of a flute. , finger is remo
Archive image from page 621 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode00john Year: 1847 WAT 628 W E A fixed a brass rod, which is kept in its , hand or the left: by drawing up the place by a collar brazed to the side of spring 6 with the forefinger, the valve the pot. In raising, the rod is pressed is raised by means of the connecting rod by the finger. No. 2 represents the im- : 5, and consequently the water flows provements, which consist in a double , into the tubes 1 and 2; as soon as the lever, acting like the key of a flute. , finger is removed from the spring, the Instead of the steel spring at the end i valve falls, and the water is stopped. of the lever, a spiral one of brass wire | The spring is fixed on the under side of IS within the point of the tube, , the handle, and nearly all inclosed in ammediately before the valve, which it that part made to fit the hand. Fig 2 shuts; at the other end of the tube is a represents the bottom of the can ; the convex rose of copper, to prevent dirt, dotted line showing the size of the &c., passing into the tube, through the valve; 1 shows the point at which the centre of which passes the rod in con- water flows into the tubes.'âCard. nexion with the lever and the valve. No. 3 differs from the preceding only in having a movable curved tube at- tached to the pipe, at the top of which is a very fine rose about an inch in diameter. From the length of tube Z'S, var Chron. WATER LEMON. Passiflora lauri- folia. WATER LILY. Nymphea. WATER MELON. Cucumis Citrui- (about twenty inches) the pressure of â¢water is considerable, when the pot held in an inclined position, producing WATER PLANTS. See Aquarium. WATER PURSLANE. Peplis. WATER VINE. Tetracera potato- a light shower admirably suited to small i ria seeds.'âGard. Chron. A third invention is Mr. Saul's, and, he says, ' it can be constructed at a very little more expense than those in general use. In the annexed sketch
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