Old Fruit Cans

Perhaps one of the most appropriate uses of an old fruit can that can be devised is to make it contribute to the growth of new fruit to fill new cans. ïhis is done in the following manner. The can is pierced with one or more pin holes, and then sunk in the earth near the roots of the strawberry or tomato or other planta, The pin holes are to be of such size that when the can is filled with water the fluid can only escape into the ground very slowly. Thus a quart can, properly arranged, will extend its irrigation to a plant through a period of several days; the can is then refilled. Practical trials of this method of irrigation lbi no doubt of its success. Plants thus watered llourish and yield the most bounteous returns throughout thelongest droughts. In all warm localities, where water is scarce, the planting of old fruit cans as here indicated will be found profitable as a regular gardening operation.