160 Gardening Under Glass 



Tools and Plant Helps 



Trowel.^ — ^This perhaps occurs to you as the 

 first tool the gardener will get; but it is in only 



one greenhouse out of 

 twenty that you will 

 find a really good 



Of course you need a trowel. Get a trnAVP'l TVk^it- n r«^ 



good one that can stand a little pry- ^rOWei. 1 UCy aiC 



ing without crumpling up or the made, but vou mav 



handle loosenuig. 



have to try several 

 places before you succeed in getting one. The 

 kind that are ordinarily offered are not worth 

 carrying home. Get a good one, cut your initials 

 in it, and enjoy it for years. 



Transplanting Fork. — The little, short-han- 

 dled fellow with broad, flat prongs. You never 

 know how handy this is 

 until you try to get along 

 without it, after you have 

 had one. 



Dibbers. — You can por transphmting small 



buy one, or make one ?/?"*« use a sharp-ended 



•^ , . stick or dibble. Here is 



yourself out of a nice piece one with a curved handle 



n 1 Ti • 1 1 ■ ^°*1 metal-shod end which 



Ot wood. It is handy to costs but little and lasts 



have a couple on hand, y^"'" lif^^time. 

 One with a point not much bigger than a lead 

 pencil for transplanting small things; and a big- 

 ger one for cuttings and the like. 



