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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



with a piece of wire. Thus prepared the tins may be set in 

 the hotbed or cold frame and filled with earth, into which the 

 seed or the plants may be placed. When the time comes for 



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Figure 19.— Use of tomato cans as an aid in transplanting. A box of plants 

 in the cans, ready for removal to the field and one can opened, showing 

 the ball of roots. The cans are held together bva piece of wire twisted 

 around them. 



for planting- into the open ground, the tins with the plants in 



them may be lifted with a trowel and placed in boxes to be 



carried to the field where the plants are easily placed in the 



ground. The tins may be set around the plants on top of the 



ground to protect them from the sun and wind. 



