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    GARDEN journal

    Mar 26, 2020 3 minutes

    A POTTED HISTORY

    ATERING CANS: Pots for watering plants have been knocking around for millennia. Early Tudor ‘thumb pots’ were made from terracotta and had small holes in the base – the flow of water controlled by placing a thumb over the air hole at the top. These were superseded by earthenware pots with short spouts ending in a rose – deriving from the French word , meaning ‘sprinkler’ – but metal ‘cans’, as we know them today, started appearing from the late 17th century. In 1886, at the height of the

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