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crowded and that need to be carried but a short distance. 
They are especially useful for transplanting strawberry 
plants during sammer and autumn. These tools, and also 
the Baldridge transplanter, en- 
able the plant to be readily lift- 
ed with a cylinder of earth and 
replanted in a hole just large 
enough to receive the latter. 
Fig. 141 shows a successful 
machine for planting tobacco, 
cabbage, strawberry and other 
low, herbaceous plants. It 
af plants these as rapidly as two 
Fic. 141. Bemis Transplanter, made 
by Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing boys can deliver them to it in 
., Madison, Wis. ae 
ae the proper position, and at the 
same time, waters the soil about the roots. 
Fie. 142. Fie. 143. 
Planting cabbage plants with the dibber. 
Fig. 142. Inserting roots in the hole opened by dibber. 
Fig. 148. Pressing earth about roots with the dibber. 
412. Potting and Shifting. Potting is the act of 
planting plants in greenhouse pots. 
The pots should be clean, and are usualy dipped in water 
before receiving the plants, until they have absorbed as 
