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VAUGHAN'S WICK-FED 
METAL SEED STARTER 
How wick is placed in 
bottom of starter. 
View of Wick-fed Starter with Plant Bands. 
Size, 12x18 inches, 4 inches high. End view showing water 
pan below. 
Complete, with Fibre Glass Wick, 60 Plant Bands, and Sphagnum Moss. 
(Weight 41 lbs.) Retails each for $2.95. Price, 3 for $6.00. Doz. $23.40. 
This seed starter must not be confused with the fragile, impractical pasteboard 
devices which have disappointed so many customers. This is a full size ‘‘flat," 
made of 28 gauge steel enameled green to last for years, which you will be glad 
to have in your sun parlor or living room window. 
It makes use of two of the most recent scientific developments in seed starting: 
1. Wick-feeding of water, which keeps the soil at just the right moisture, never 
drying out, never too wet, and never dripping dirty water from an overflow. 2. The 
use of sphagnum moss to prevent damping off of seedlings, highly recommended 
by the U.S. D. A. 
As shown in the illustrations, water is supplied to the soil from a pan placed 
underneath the starter, by the agency of capillary attraction, through a fibre glass 
wick, the top of which is frayed and embedded in the soil, the lower end being 
immersed in water in the pan below. Any suitable pan, saucer, or dish can be 
used. 
Fill this container with water daily, and the wick will do the rest. This method 
of watering leaves nothing to chance or judgment, and solves in the easiest im- 
aginable way one of the most serious problems of seed-box management. It has 
: been thoroughly tested by Cor- 
nell University. The wick will last 
indefinitely. 
Seeds may be sown in the 
starter in rows, broadcast or, as 
shown in the illustration, in plant 
bands. If started in plant bands, 
and grown one plant to a band, 
sturdy, full size pot plants will be 
produced without transplanting. 
Seedlings may be easily trans- 
ferred. 
Corning Mulching Wool. Put up in bats 24 inches by 96 inches, 3 lb. density. Price 
per bat, $1.25; three for $3.60, per carton of 9 bats, $9.95. 
