Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — FRAME AS PLANT PROTECTOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRAME AS PLANT PROTECTOR

Particularly Adaptable for Use In Cultivation of Peppers, Tomatoes and Other Vegetables. The Scientific American in describing a plant protector, Invented by E. R. Drake of De Land, Fla.* says: This invention is an improvement upon the one for which Mr. Drake received letters patent No. 932,972 particularly adapted for use in the cultivation of plants, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants and other vegetable. The engraving shows a perspective view of a skeleton frame which Is rect-

angular and oblong. The object of using the two boards at the bottom which are on the south side of the frame is to blend the rays of the sun from the time the plants are set out, so as to prevent the rays striking the plants with full force ;_and the object of the wires is to hold the plants or vines and keep them off the ground. The top of the irtime may serve for supporting burlap or other coarse fabric or planks for protecting the plants.

Plant Protector.