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main fresh and vigorous for several days, and 

 need not have the roots disturbed, until sold 

 to the planter. 



SMALLER BOXES. The latest device for 

 safety in transplanting is the use of small boxes, 

 but three or four inches square, and without 

 bottom. They are formed of four pieces of 

 thin wood, dovetailed together after the man- 

 ner of the well-known CrandalFs Building 

 Blocks for Children. These boxes fit closely 

 together, and a single plant is transplanted 

 into each box. When ready to plant out in 

 the garden, the sides are taken off and the soil 

 placed in the ground without in the least dis- 

 turbing the roots. These blocks occupy but 

 little room when packed away, and answer the 

 desired purpose very nicely. They are the in- 

 vention of Mr. Crandall, and are sold through 

 his general agents, the Orange Judd Company, 

 of New York, and can probably be supplied 

 by most seedsmen in retail quantities. 



In most sections of this country it will pay 

 the gardener well to grow a crop of head-let- 

 tuce in his beds during winter. Even two 

 crops may be grown, but the ground cannot 

 well be cleared in spring in time for starting 



