Garden Implements — 49 



Old-style Dibbers. 



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 

 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, A marker of this kind is here illustrated. 

 It has the disadvantage, however, of compelling 

 the operator to walk backwards, or at least sideways. If you 



want long rows as 

 straight as is always 

 desirable for neat 

 work, it would be bet- 

 ter to adjust a set of 

 handles in the rear, 



a 

 the 

 by which one person 

 Marker for Home Garden. can steer the imple- 



ment while another draws it along horse-fashion. This style of 

 marker opens the furrows just about deep enough for sowing in 

 them onion, beet, carrot, radish, 



New-style 

 Dibber. 



lettuce, spinach and other ordi- 

 nary garden seeds by hand. 



To mark out rows for plant ' 

 setting, especially as required in 

 the new onion culture (described 

 under " Onion " in Chapter 

 XXVIII.), we prefer a tool that 

 will indicate the rows by light 

 marks, not by deep furrows, and 

 can be pushed ahead, enabling 

 one person to make as straight 

 rov/s as can only be made by 

 garden marker. 

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Wheel Marker. 



two with the first-described 



