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is to be used it should be poured about the roots before 

 all the soil is added. 



6. The plant should have as large a space as that 

 in which it originally grew. The soil should be put 

 in first at the bottom of the hole in which the roots 

 are to grow, and the subsoil, if any, at the surface. It 

 is important to make the soil firm about the roots. 



7. It is sometimes well to shade the young trans- 

 plant a few days from the hot sunshine, or to protect 

 the roots with a mulch of straw or grass. 



The pupils in agriculture should by all means get 

 some actual practice in transplanting, if in no other 

 way than by going to the school yard and getting wild 

 plants to transplant in pots or in out-door plots. 



Practical Exercises 

 1. Transplating Garden Vegetables 



If there is a window-box in the school, in which are 

 growing seedlings of cabbage, tomato, or other vegetables 

 to be transplanted, let each pupil transplant a few of the 

 vegetables to the school garden. Be careful to follow 

 the principles given in this lesson. If there is no school 

 garden, the transplants should be taken home and set 

 in the home garden, and reports made in school, from 

 time to time, as to the success of the work. 

 2. Transplating Wild Flowers 



Let each pupil find some thrifty-growing wild flower 

 from the fields or woods, transplant it to some pot of 

 good soil and bring to the school room. Explain the 

 causes of its success or failure to live and grow. 



