Show au an automatic watering pot german publications have been a describing c a very useful automatic watering can which tile the housewife might adopt to caro care for otherwise others other neglected plants A thick untwisted cotton wick about 5 feet fe long lone Is inserted in a rubber ot 01 glass tube about three feet long and 0 ol 01 I 1 11 t inch bore which Is bent lin U shape shap e one leg longer than tile the other the wick being allowed to project at both ends the short abort end of tho the tube Is left in a pall pail of water over night while the takes up the water from the pall pail until it la Is saturated in tho the morning the pall pail may be AUTOMATIC WATERING POT set on a stool and tho the slow of water through tile the wick la Is started by suction the wick at tho end ol of the long lone leg ot of the improvised siphon Is separated into several strands one strand being placed in each pot to be watered tho the caretaker may now go gc away for tho the day with the assurance that his flowers will renelva all tb water necessary zia in warm weather it Is best to cover the pall pail and wrap th tube tuba cloth to prevent the wick drying the german inventor device aada it has always worked sue sno cess fully |