142 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
soil. (See page 19.) The fine sort, sometimes 
called bone flour, is the quickest acting. For plants 
that stay potted for several years, it is best to use 
about two-thirds of the coarse-ground. 
FOR PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING 
Transplanting fork. This can be had in malle- 
able iron for fifteen cents and as it is not submitted — 
to hard strains, like a trowel, will do as well as the 
seventy-five-cent imported sorts. It will save the 
life of innumerable seedlings, in lifting them from 
the seed box. 
Dibber. You can make two or three of various 
sizes in a few minutes from a piece of soft pine. 
They are used for pricking off and repotting. It 
will often be convenient to have one end bluntly 
pointed and the other rather flat. 
Sub-irrigation tray. The use of this convenient 
method of watering is described on page 24 and il- 
lustrated facing page 28. The tinsmith will make 
you a tray for fifty or seventy-five cents. It will 
certainly pay to have one if you attempt to grow 
many fine-seeded flowers. 
Watering can. As this accessory is more used 
perhaps than any other, and as the quality of the 
work it does is very important, it is poor economy 
to buy a cheap one. The Wotherspoon type, sold 
by most seed houses, is the best. It has brass fittings 
which will not rust, tighten or rot out and a coarse 
