[From The Gardener's Magazine Of Botany.]

The annexed engraving represents some Belgian novelties of the class of garden utensils, and may, perhaps, be suggestive of some improvements in the mode of watering plants. The figures and descriptions are taken from La Belgique Horticole.

At the Agricultural Institute of Hohenheim, a new method of watering plants and gardens was brought into notice, and which, in German, is called Schnellgiesser; in Flemish, Schnelgieter; and in French, Arrasoir a la minute, (all three terms signifying, literally, quick waterer.) Figure 1 shows this invention with the mode of applying it. It consists of a wooden tub, bound by hoops of iron, furnished at the top with iron handles, and in front with two stout leather straps, by which it is suspended from the back of the workman. At the bottom of the tub is a copper socket, to which a gutta-percha or India-rubber pipe is attached, and at that part of this pipe, which may be conveniently held by the hand, there is a small turn-cock, and beyond this a spout and rose, the latter having the holes below. The tub contains as much water as the workman can carry, and when it is