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closely crowded and that need to be carried but a short 

 distance. They are especially useful for transplanting 

 strawberry plants during summer and autumn. These 

 tools and also the Baldridge 

 transplanter enable the plant 

 to be readily lifted with a 

 cylinder of earth and re- 

 planted in a hole just large 

 enough to receive the latter. 

 Fig. 142 shows a success- 

 ful machine for planting to- 

 bacco, cabbage, strawberry 

 and other low, herbaceous 

 ft* * tt^gy plants. It plants these as 



FIG. 142. 



er, made by Full 

 Manufacturing Co., 

 Wis. 



Madison, 



liver them to it in the proper 

 position, and waters the soil about the roots at the same 

 time. 



412. Potting and Shifting. Potting is the act of 

 planting plants in greenhouse pots. 



The pots should be clean and are usually dipped in 

 water before receiving the plants, until they have ab- 

 sorbed as much of the liquid as they will take without 

 leaving any upon the surface. Rooted cuttings are 

 generally potted in pots one and one-half to two inches 

 in diameter, and the plants are changed to larger pots 

 (shifted} as the roots require more room. Pots three 

 inches or more in diameter are commonly filled one- 

 third full or less with pieces of broken pots (potsherds) 

 to insure abundant drainage, and these are often cov- 

 ered with a little spagnum moss before putting in the 



