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Show PAPER POT IS INEXPENSIVi Little Device Easily Made and Sua cessfully Serves Many Purposes In Starting Seeds. Here Is a little device, so inexpensive inexpen-sive and so easily made, and which successfully serves so many purposes in starting seeds and plants, that every one should avail himself of its help. Take a piece of stiff paper (not necessarily cardboard) and on 'it draw two circles, one within the other; the outer circle should be six inches radius, ra-dius, and the Inner one three. Cut out the portion of paper inside the smaller circle, and trim to the line of the outer circle, thus having a ( : k ) Paper Pot at Two Stages. shape like a doughnut. Cut this round piece of paper into three equal arcs (or it may be halved for large plants). Use one of these parts as a pattern, and cut as many like it aa you want. On one end of the arc cut Into the outer end, three-quarters of an Inch from the end, a slit half way across the paper; on the other end cut the same from the inner edge. Then bend the strip and lock the slits together to hold each other as fastenings to the Dot. The little paper pot will be bottomless bottom-less and will have set in sand or soil, whichever is to be used as ground to grow the things in, and filled as any pot, putting the seed, cutting or plant it In the usual way. , The 6oil fnto which the pot is plunged must, of course, be kept moist. When the plant is ready to be shifted to a larger, or transplanted, the paper can be torn off, leaving the ball of soil undisturbed, and the plant will feel no shock of removal. Many plants cannot stand transplanting trans-planting by the usual way, and for such these little paper pots are found to be invaluable. Give them a trial. H. W. M. |