. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. A French invention for sliowerinj; plants with insect-killing liquids, or clear water, operating the same way as the well-known perfume sprinkler of tlie drug stores, and the atomizer, or spray producer, of the surgeons. The liquid to he used is put into tlie brass globe and the bellnws worked; a fine spray issues in such a copious stream that it is easy to reach every part of the plant and bedew it with what
. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. A French invention for sliowerinj; plants with insect-killing liquids, or clear water, operating the same way as the well-known perfume sprinkler of tlie drug stores, and the atomizer, or spray producer, of the surgeons. The liquid to he used is put into tlie brass globe and the bellnws worked; a fine spray issues in such a copious stream that it is easy to reach every part of the plant and bedew it with whatever insect-killing liquid mav be desirable. One great advantage of this apparatus is its economy. In the onlinary methods of treating plants witli liquid insecticides, a very large share is wasted, winle with this only so much as is needed to just moisten the leaves and stems need be used. Carbolic soap and other preparations of carbolic .acid, wliale-oil .soap, tobac^co water, infu- sions of Quassia, Camomile, and Pyretlirum (Persian Insect Powderi and solutions of salt, carbonate of ammonia, and aloes, or whatever be found useful aaainst any particular insect, may be em- ployed. It will also be found a most useful implement for showering the foliage of house plants with tepid water during Winter, to cleanse them from dust and keep the foliage in a healthy condi- tion. Price, S3 50 each. Rustic Window- Boxes* No. 1. No. 3. The above will he found very ornamental, as well as useful for growing Bulbs and Plants of all kinds, either inside or outside the window. They can be made of any size that may he required. No. 1, per lineal foot, --- ..§225 Ko. 2, per lineal foot, 2 00 Rustic Settees and Chairs* No. 1.âSettee for Piazza, length, 7 feet, . . , Settee for Piazza, extreme length. 5 feet; similar pattern, â No. 8.âSettees for Lawns, red cedar, with the bark, 5 feet, - Larger sizes, built to order, ! to § per foot extra. No. .3.âKockiiiR Ch
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