Garden Implements 43 



point and a convenient handle. The new style of dibber, here 

 illustrated, consisting of a flat steel blade with handle, is a great 

 improvement on the old tool, and I hope will soon be put on sale 

 generally. The home gardener, 

 who generally sows seeds by 

 hand, needs a marker, which may 

 be a cheap, home-made affair, 

 constructed from a piece of 

 scantling 4 by 4, with three or 

 four sharpened strips of inch 

 Old-style Dibbers, board securely nailed on in front, 

 or mortised in, so that the pointed 

 ends are 15 or 16 inches apart Two poles are 

 adjusted for handles. The marker may be made 

 reversible, with another set of teeth, but only 12 

 inches apart, pointing in the opposite direction. 

 The market gardener will also need a tool of this 

 kind for marking the rows where he wishes to plant 

 onion sets, or to set lettuce plants, etc. The distance 

 between the teeth must be regulated according to his 

 purpose. Markers as found in general use are here 

 illustrated. .Indispensable in the market garden, and 

 still more so in the farm garden, and convenient to have even 



in the home garden, 

 is a good seed drill. 

 The leading imple- 

 ments now in use are 

 Matthews' and Planet 

 Jr. garden drills. The 

 latter is shown in illus- 



New- style 

 Dibber. 



Marker for Home Garden. 



tration on next page. 



For accuracy and regularity of depositing the seed, and ease and 

 rapidity of operation, the Planet Jr. has hardly a peer. It affords 

 a safe, easy, and perfect method of sowing smaller seeds over large 

 or small areas. The 

 intelligent farmer who 

 has learned to appre- 

 ciate the mangels, and 

 carrots and other root 

 crops as winter food 

 for cattle, sheep, hogs 

 and horses, and makes 

 it a practice to plant 

 largely of them every 

 year, is not unacquainted with the merits of the garden drills, 

 and often would not consider his assortment of implements 

 complete without a good garden seed sower. 



Marker for the Market Garden. 



