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lying up in the path (measure from each edge to be 

 sure it is the middle). Now press the handle just 

 as you pressed the pencil when you made gutters in 

 the seed box ; take the hoe up and reverse it, laying 



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MAKING GUTTERS WITH A RAKE HANDLE JUST AS WE MADE THEM 

 WITH A PENCIL IN OUR SEED BOX 



the tool end up at the other end of the bed, again 

 exactly in the middle, and press. You now have 

 a straight gutter the full length of the bed for the 

 center flowers. Divide this into three parts, making 

 a little mark on the soil just as we made it on our 

 paper plan. Next take your three packets of seed 



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