To plant flowers in a stiff looking box, a tin can or a pail, is to lose half their lovely effect when they are in bloom. We should always try to provide an attractive place for them, because much of the time the plants have no flowers and no one wishes to have an ugly box or a rusty pail standing around.

A rustic tub is suitable for large plants or even small trees, and is very easily made. Take a small tub such as butter comes in or else a wooden pail without a handle and cover the outside with slabs of wood about two inches wide with the bark on. These may be sawn from branches from three to four inches in diameter. Have them all exactly the same length and fitted closely together so that the tub is entirely hidden. If you can find some green boughs about one-half inch in diameter that will stand to be slowly bent half way around a tin can, our tub may be provided with feet, as shown in the drawing. In this case a space must be left between every other or every third slab, and the number and width of the slabs should be arranged so that the feet will come out right.