Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1915 — NEW WAY TO WATER TREES [ARTICLE]

NEW WAY TO WATER TREES

German City Official Seems to Have Hit Upon Method That Should Be Effective. A very ingenious and practical device for assuring the trees on city sidewalks a suflicient supply of water, no matter how dry the season and how hard baked the earth, has been put in operation in Strassburg by . Mr. Sauer, the city tree inspector. It consists of a tube of iron or lead bent into the form of a ring large enough to encircle the stem of the tree. The earth is removed so that this ring may be placed just above the roots, and is then filled in again, leaving the end dt a pipe connecting with the ring projecting above the surface of the ground. The top of the ring is pierced with a large number of small holes, and a tin cover or shield prevents these from becoming stopped up with earthy By means of a funnel in the protruding end of the pipe any desired amount of water may be supplied to the roots without waste or loss of time. A further advantage, according to Prometheus, is the ventilation thus secured of the earth in the vicinity of the roots.