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GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



quired only of these widths, every row is, of course, 

 planted. But many of our crops require wider rows ; 

 thus, with a twelve-inch marker we plant our early Cab- 

 bages at twenty-four inches apart, the intervening rows 

 being planted with Lettuce at the same time ; or, with 



Flo;. 128. DOUBLE MARKER. 



the narrow side of the marker, every row nine inches 

 apart is planted with Onion sets ; or, in sucli a crop as 

 Beets, every alternate row only is used, making the rows 

 eighteen inches part. This is the marker that has been 



Fig. 129. RAPP'S ADJUSTABLE MARKER. 



in use for many years. Within the last year, however, 

 a new implement, known as Rapp's Adjustable Ground 

 Marker, has been offered, and a large number of them 

 have been sold to the best market gardeners in our vicin- 

 ity, all of whom, without exception, say that it effects a 



