AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



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MISCELLANEOUS IMPLEMENTS, &c. 

 The line-reel and its pin may be of iron, as shown in the fig- 

 ure (57), or a couple of wooden pins, of an 

 inch diameter and fifteen inches length, 

 may be substituted, upon each of which 

 one half the line may be wound, as boys 

 wind kite-cord. 



The line itself should be of tarred 

 cord, twisted pretty hard, such as ship- 

 chandlers and boatmen call "marlin," 

 a hundred yards' length of which will 

 not cost above a dollar, and with care 

 will last for twenty years. Paths, beds, 

 plots, &c., are laid out by the aid of the 

 garden-line. It is also used as a guide 

 in setting out rows of plants, or in the 

 preparation of drills for sowing, which are usually cut along it 

 with the hoe, or merely marked along with the end of the han- 

 dle, or with a stick. 



The marker (Fig. 58) is a home-made implement, devised 



Fig. 53. 



Line and Line-reel. 



Marker. 



to obviate the necessity of repeatedly setting a line, and draw- 

 ing single drills by it. To make it, take a piece of any com- 



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