The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . eir steel points. In order to measure a fruit,the legs are to be separated until the opposite points rub on its greatest diameter,the graduated scale then marks the extent of this separation, which is the diameterof the fnait. In the same way its height can be measured. It will readily be seen that, in addition to measuring the diameter of fruits, thediacarpometer may be applied to many other uses in horticultui^: one of which, asrecommended by its ingenious inventor, M. Abel de la Faroe, member of theagricultural committee of Sales
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . eir steel points. In order to measure a fruit,the legs are to be separated until the opposite points rub on its greatest diameter,the graduated scale then marks the extent of this separation, which is the diameterof the fnait. In the same way its height can be measured. It will readily be seen that, in addition to measuring the diameter of fruits, thediacarpometer may be applied to many other uses in horticultui^: one of which, asrecommended by its ingenious inventor, M. Abel de la Faroe, member of theagricultural committee of Saless, is the determination of annular incisions in trees. It will thus be perceived that the diacarpometer is not a fancy instrument, in-tended only for amateurs and dilettanti, but is destined to a practical and daily usein horticulture, to give more accuracy, grace, and elegance to the labours of thegardener, and at the same time afford more exact results than have hitherto beenobtained in the exercise of this agreeable employment.—A. Remi/, in Revue Ilort.
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