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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
Home-made Hanging Baskets — N. 
(Illustrated hy A. W. Roberts.) 
rpHE variety of designs which may be 
worked out of even the commonest 
forms of ordinary earthen flower pots, and 
the great extent of common and otherwise 
worthless materials from which supplies 
Fig. 1 is a nine-inch flower pot, bored 
full of holes of the size shown in diagram, 
Fig. 2. After the holes were bored, I gave 
the pot a coat of dark green paint, which 
was then dusted over with fine brown sand 
(washed clean and dried) mixed with white 
frosting or pounded white glass, to give the 
pot a glisten like granite and subdue the 
may be drawn, encourages me to add a few 
more designs to those already given. It is 
a well known truth that it is labor guided 
by taste and skill that confers value upon 
most articles. Even the rude iron ore, 
which is trampled under foot and regarded 
as dirt, becomes, when worked into some 
products, worth more than its weight of the 
finest gold. 
too painty look it might otherwise have. 
In the bottom of the pot, over the drain 
hole, was placed a large piece of sponge. 
This sponge was for the purpose of retain- 
ing a liberal supply of water for the very 
large number of plants used in this hanging 
pot, and was necessary from the fact that 
they are of a kind that delight in moisture. 
Over and around the sponge the pot was 
