KEEPING POT PLANTS ALIVE.
A handy little device for keeping pot plants fresh while one is away <»n holidays is suggested by Georgia Rivers in “The Australian Journal” for February. The garden may be left to the care of kindly neighbours or a visiting gardener, but some pot plants are valuable enough to make their owners hesitate at leaving them in an outhouse. In such a case it is rather amusing to try out a little irrigation scheme of your own. Arrange the pots on a very large tray, if you have one, surrounding a large pail filled with water. Take sfcme ordinary wool and plait three strands loosely together. Dip them in the pail and then link up the water and each pot. The water will be sucked up out of the pail hy capillary attraction and will be led to the flowers. Arrange this a day or so before you go away, so that you may be able to watch the plan working properly. Be careful that each strand, goes to the bottom of the pail, so that the water will last as long as possible. If your holidays are taken m warm weather place the tray in the coolest part of the house you can find.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13180, 12 February 1936, Page 7
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