Plumbing

Plumbing, properly working in lead (Lat. plumbum), now a term embracing all work not only in lead, but also in tin, zinc and other metals, connected with the installation, fitting, repairing, soldering, &c., of pipes for water, gas, drainage, on cisterns, roofs and the like in any building, i.e. the general work of a plumber. (See Building and Sewerage.) on  (After Sadebeck. From Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik, by permission of Gustav Fischer.) Taphrina Pruni. - Transverse section through the epidermis of an infected plum. Four ripe asci, a i, a 2, with eight spores a3, a 4, with yeast-like conidia abstricted from the spores (X 600).

st, Stalk-cells of the asci.

m, Filaments of the mycelium cut transversely.

cut, Cuticle.

ep, Epidermis.