Tools and Coyiveniences of the Year. 



265 



vegetables through sev- 

 eral degrees of latitude 

 so arranged as to 



New Fruit Car. — A California fruit car, made by the Earl 

 Fruit Company, is designed for the shipment of fresh fruits 

 and 



It is 

 be thrown 

 into either a refrigerator or 

 ventilator car. 



Toope's Pot Stand. — (Fig. 

 39, page 264.) — A device for 

 keeping snails and other in-^^ 



Fig. 40. 



truders away from pots. — 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, April 

 12, 460. 



Utilizing Tin Cans. — 

 (Fig. 40.) — Tin fruit cans 

 are burned until they fall 

 to pieces, when the cylin- 

 drical portion is treated as 

 in the figure, by means of 

 strong shears, so that the 

 edges can be clasped to- 

 They make useful substitutes for pots. — S. H. Tay- 

 vi, 4(p. 



gether 



LOR, in Popular Garde ni?i^, 



Berry-box Holder. — (Fig. 41.) 

 enough to hold a quart berry box. 

 through the funnel. A ---- 



strap passes around the 

 picker's body, and 

 gives him the use of 

 both hands ; and the 

 box cannot be tipped 

 over, and the berries 

 are not dropped or 

 spilled. — Orange Judd 

 Farmer. 



Improved Watering 

 Pot.— (Figs. 42, 43.) 

 Ordinary watering pots / 



are apt to drizzle when 



A. H. — 19 



This is a tin box, large 

 The berries are dropped 



Fig. 



