PRESERVING CHOICE PLANTS FROM SLUGS. 
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To remedy these deficiencies, a circular earthenware pan has been invented to 
protect single plants, by Miss Bygrave *, an ingenious lady, in the Isle of Wight. 
It is placed round the plant nearly even with the surface of the soil, and the hollow 
part is filled with water, over which the slugs cannot pass. If the plant to be preserved 
stands in a pot, and the pot be set in a pan or feeder, the “ Bygrave Plant Preserver ” 
might be filled with salt, instead of water, which will be much more effectual ; but 
if the pot in which the plant grows be not placed in a feeder, and even then, if the 
plant be small, there will be great danger of its being destroyed, by a sudden shower 
of rain washing the salt, either to the roots or leaves. 
But if all the choice plants were formed into beds, either by placing the pots 
* Horticultural Register, vol. i. p. 150. 
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