190 ABC OF STRAWBERRY CULTURE 



The drawing will make the machine plain, almost without 

 any particular explanation. You hold it in both hands, and 

 with an auger-like motion back and forth you set the steel tube, 

 No. 1, over the plant. It is pressed down till it will bring up 

 the plant, roots and all, in a lump of dirt like No. 2. It is not 

 advisable to push it any further down than is necessary to get 

 all the roots. In fact, if the tap-root is broken off, with most 

 plants they will do just as well. 



MACHINE FOR TRANSPLANTING SMAI,!, PLANTS. 



After the plant is out of the ground in its ball of earth, you 

 place your two thumbs on the lever at the top of the machine, 

 and push down, releasing the ball of earth. With strawberries 

 you can load these balls into a wheelbarrow, or with appropri- 

 ate trays you can load them into a wagon. Fit your ground 

 nicely, as described in our book on strawberry culture ; mark 

 it out according to your notion, then with the transplan ting- 

 machine make holes to drop your "potted plants" into, for 

 they are potted plants, to all intents and purposes. 



Some time in the fore part of April we put out with this 

 machine several thousand strawberry-plants, including all the 

 different varieties ; and .if there is one failure in the whole lot, 

 I have not seen it. Almost any boy, with a little instruction, 

 will operate it nicely ; and with any soil that I have yet used it 



