An artistic syringe, which is useful to use

in gardens or on bleaching grounds.

The First Figure.

This newly invented syringe is easy to make, and anyone who can handle a hatchet and carving tool even halfway well can prepare it. One takes for this purpose such wood that does not easily warp or rot in water or from water; one makes of it a small square block, perhaps a span and a half or two spans long and a good broad hand in height, as is marked with A. In the bottom part, in the middle, one makes a round or square hole, perhaps three fingers wide, designated with B., and inside the same, a valve or plate which opens and closes. On the outside, however, one beats a perforated sheet of metal in front, so that the water is drawn in only through it, and nothing impure otherwise enters. On the upper side, however, one also makes two holes in the middle, which join together inside underneath the valve or plate that is set in the bottom hole, as is marked with C. D., and into these holes two pipes, as are marked with E. F., are mortised and thus fastened so that neither air nor water can penetrate through the joint. And the same pipes are made somewhat sideways toward each other in the block, as is to be seen from the illustration in the copperplate. Into one pipe, one puts a small pump rod, designated with G., which one draws back and forth, and with it draws the water in below