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GENERAL ADVICE 



Dibbers make holes without removing any of the 

 earth. A good form of dibber is shown in Fig. 



44, which is like a 

 Many persons prefer 

 conical dibber, like 



45. For hard soils 

 strong dibber may 

 which has a right- 

 serve as a handle, 

 softened by slipping 



flat or plane trowel, 

 a cylindrical and 

 that shown in Fig. 

 and larger plants, a 

 be made from a limb 

 angled branch to 

 This handle may be 

 a piece of rubber 



46. A home-made 

 and padded dibber. 



47. Dibber and 

 crow-bar combined. 



48. Strawberry 

 planter. 



hose on it (Fig. 46). A long iron dibber, which 

 may also be used as a crow-bar, is shown in 



