. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. SIO TJic Country Gentlenmiis Magazine A CHEAP FUMIGATOR. Every professional gardener knows how to smoke or fumigate a plant-house, but it often puzzles the amateur how to do it. There is besides, a certain class of men calling them- selves gardeners, who surely do not under- stand the method, or we should not so often see house-plants so covered with aphides, &c. Moreover, we are quite certain that no gardener could endure seeing his plants thus poisoned. To fumigate a house is the simplest matter possible. Get
. The Country gentleman's magazine. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Great Britain. SIO TJic Country Gentlenmiis Magazine A CHEAP FUMIGATOR. Every professional gardener knows how to smoke or fumigate a plant-house, but it often puzzles the amateur how to do it. There is besides, a certain class of men calling them- selves gardeners, who surely do not under- stand the method, or we should not so often see house-plants so covered with aphides, &c. Moreover, we are quite certain that no gardener could endure seeing his plants thus poisoned. To fumigate a house is the simplest matter possible. Get four flower-pots—tv/o small and two a good fair size, in proportion to the work to be done. Set the small pots bottom upward, a small distance apart; get a few live coals in one of the larger pots and set it on the bottoms of the small ones ; this will leave the hole in the bottom clear for draft—put tobacco paper on the hot coals —turn the other large pot bottom the one containing the tobacco, &c., and it will burn right away. Another plan is, not to use fire, but instead, a short piece of candle stuck in a piece of clay placed beneath the hole of the pot containing the tobacco. Be. A cheap Fumigator. sure the foliage of the plants is dry, that the house is cool, and that the tobacco does not blaze, and no harm will be done unless the quantity used be excessive. A GARDENER'S STOOL. Any invention which eases or facilitates the labour of gardening is sure to be ac- ceptable to villa gardeners, and especially those who cultivate their gardens with their own hands. The stool which we now illus- trate we saw in use in the market-gardens of Paris upwards of twenty years ago ; but it has recently been appropriated by an " in- ventor " in the United States, who has made it the subject of a patent. The stool vv'ill be found very useful in all gardening operations where stooping is necessary when it forms a convenient support. The stool is strapped to, and
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