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MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY 



as carefully as possible, preferably in damp weatTier, 

 or just before a rain. They will soon start off and 

 give fruit much earlier than common plants from 

 the ordinary seed bed. The cold frame can be used 

 to sow lettuce for late fall or to 

 plant pansies and violets for win- 

 ter. As soon as plants begin to 

 appear through the covering this 

 must be removed in favorable 

 weather and replaced in unfavor- 

 able. Great care is needed to pre- 

 vent extremes of heat and cold, 

 and the plants suffer from too much wet. 



" If any plants grow too fast or too tall they 

 should have plenty of air, and water should be 

 withheld ; if they wilt in the sunshine, they will 

 not be harmed." 



ROW MARKER 



MAKING STRAIGHT ROWS 



" To enable one man to mark out straight rows 

 in the quickest possible manner," writes R. J. 

 Dallinga of Summit county, Ohio, " we stretch two 

 strong cotton lines, 

 which cost us about 25 

 cents apiece, where the 

 first two rows are to 

 be, say, 3 feet apart. 



"From a garden drill 

 we remove all the seed- 

 ing attachments and 

 run the drill wheels 



over the first line from a to a. Before running back 

 on second line {h to h) we put the stake of line one 

 from a to c. When we arrive at h, stake of line one 

 is moved from a to c, which puts the line in position 



MAKING STRAIGHT ROWS 



