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PAILOSOPHICAL AND ECONOMICAL INTELLIGENCE. In Elegant Method of obtaining very a garden reduced to a state of poverty,

exact and pleasing Representations of very unfriendly to vegetation. An inviPlants.

gorating manure was necessary; but such

a stimulus could not easily be procured. TAKE the plant of which you wish Considering upon the means, it occurred to obtain a representation, and lay it on

that possibly some trivial advantage might some sheets of blossom or blotting paper,

be derived from the oil and alkali, remainand having properly displayed the leaves and flowers, so as to lie in the most ad. ing in the water after washing, commonly

called soap-suds. Pits were immediately vantazeous manner, lay some more of the dug, and the contents of the washing same kind of paper upon it, and a large tubs, after they were done with, emptied book, or some other convenient weight into them As washing succeeded washing upon it, in order to press it with a gentle other pits were dug and filled, so that a degree of pressure. In this state let it

whole garden, a small portion excepted, remain two or three days, then remove

was watered and enriched. Upon the the upper paper, and see whether the

spot purposely neglected, vegetation, says plant be sufficiently firm or stiff to bear removing. When this is the case, smear

the writer, is still languid, while the re

sidue of the garden, invigorated by suds over every part of the plant with ink, only, annually exhibits a luxuriance almade by dissolving a quantity of Indian ink in warm water; then carefully lay the bourhood can produce. We have known

most equal to any thing this fertile neighsmeared side on a piece of clean and this kind of manure, and even another kind strong white paper, and covering it with of domestick lie, applied with success to a piece of the blossom, or soft paper, the roots of the vine. press with the hand on every part, and

But the mixture of an oil and an alkali rub it uniformly over. After remaining has been more generally known than some time longer, remove it from the adopted as a remedy against the insects paper, and a distinct and beautiful im.

which infect wall fruit trees. It will de. pression will remain, far exceeding, in softness of appearance, if well conducted, stroy the insects which have formed their

nests and bred among the leaves. Used and justness of representation, even the most elaborate and highly finished engra.

in the early part of the year it will pre

vent insects from settling upon the leaves. ving. It is only to be lamented, that, in this method of figuring plants, some of

It is also preferable to the lime water, the minuter characters of the flower must

or wood ashes and lime, because lime unavoidably be expressed indistinctly. the air.

loses its causticity by being exposed to

The only difficulty is in the These, however, as well as any other mi. nute parts, which may not have been im•' his treatise on the vine, directs it to be

mode of applying it. Mr. Speechley, in pressed with sufficient sharpness, may be added with a pencil and Indian inkl

. poured from a ladder out of a watering Sometimes a small press is made use of pot, over both trees and wall, beginning

at the top of the wall, and bringing it in this process; and various compositions may also be used, as well as Indian ink:

on, in courses, from top to bottom. The

Rev. Mr. Falconer thinks a considerable viz. a kind of fine printer's ink, composed extent of wall may be washed by means of lamp-black, with linseed oil, &c. The of a common garden pump, in a short figures may occasionally be coloured af

time, as often as a supply of suds, &c. terwards, in the manner of engravings. Their great merit consists in so happily

can be had; or a quantity of potash of

commerce dissolved in water may be expressing what botanists term the habit; substituted. Washing the trees and the or true general aspect of the natural

wall twice a week for three or four weeks plants; a particular in which even the best and most elaborate engravings are

in the spring will sufficiently secure the

fruit from the injuries of insects. This found defective.

Your's, &c.

upon the whole, he thinks a valuable manure, as it can be easily obtained, at a

small expense and in large quantities ; An Experiment on Soapsuds as a Manure. and when its nature is understood, will

By Mr. G. Irwin, of Taunton, with re- probably be no less esteemed than horse marks by the rev. Thomas Falconer. dung. To the gardener as well as the far

A FEW years since, says this writer, mer, mixed with mould, it is also useful my attention was attracted by the soil of as a fertilizing compost.

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WILLIAM PYBUS.

Mr. Andrew Brown has obtained a patent improvement, to presses now in common for Improvements in the Construction of a use, by means of a fly-wheel and traddle, Press, for printing Books and other Ar- which give motion to the two barrels or ticles, part of which may be applied to cylinders, and distribute the ink over the Presses in common use.

types, to feed them with ink either by the THESE improvements are on the motion of the hand or fly-wheel, or by press itself; on the use of barrels or cylin- other methods well known to every meders for feeding the types with ink; and chanick. in the loose frisket and manner of using it. The press is made of cast iron, as is

Frederick Bartholomew Folsch and William also the bed which must be accurately

Howard have obtained a patent for a cerfaced for the types to lie on. A follower

tain Machine, Instrument, or Pen, cal. gives pressure on the types, and is fixed to

culated to promote Facility in Writing : the screw. In using this press, the cast

and also a certain Black Writing Ink iron bed slides out below the roller or cy

or Composition, the Durability whereof linder, which revolves round and feeds the

is not to be affected by Time, or change types with ink. It is covered with flannel,

of Climate. or any other elastick substance, and then is

THE pen is made of glass, enamel, or covered with parchment or vellum, or

other substance capable of admitting a other proper materials to prevent the ink

bore. The pointis small and finely polished; from soaking too far in, and likewise to

but the part above the point is large give it a spring, and afterwards is covered

enough to hold as much or more ink than with superfine wollen cloth, for the pur

a common writing pen. The composition pose of receiving the ink to supply the types. There is a large barrel, or cylinder, black and fresh butter, which is smeared

is a mixture of equal parts of Frankfort and also a smaller one ; the former hay. ing received the ink from the trough un

over paper and rubbed off after a certain derneath it, the latter rolls on the other, pressed for some hours, taking care to

time. The paper thus smeared is to be and distributes or spreads out the ink on the face of it; or it may be necessary, with

have sheets of blotting paper between each the small barrel cr cylinder, occasionally use, the paper is put between sheets of

of the sheets of black paper. When fit for to use a brush to distribute the ink, or lay this blackened paper, and the upper sheet the ink on the large barrel. The large is to be written on with common ink with barrel feeds the other with ink, and that

the glass or enamel pen. By this method revolves and feeds the types by the motion of the spindle, which moves the bed.

not only the copy is obtained on which you

write, but also two or more made by means Mr. B. is able to apply the barrels or cy- of the blackened paper. linders, which he reckons his principal

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