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depend on climatic conditions. For the home project, the safer 

 plan will be to transplant into a hotbed. In this event, no more 

 • than a foot of hot manure will provide as much heat as will be 

 required. In most parts of the North, it is entirely safe to set 

 tomato plants in cold frames by the middle of April. 

 The same kind of flats that were described for seed sowing (W : 48 



Fig. 13. — Equipment for seed sowing and transplanting. 



and 53) will be found highly satisfactory when transplanting. 

 The plants should be set about two inches apart. If they are to be 

 kept in the frames more than two or three weeks, it will be a great 

 advantage to make another shift into flats, spacing the plants at 

 least four inches apart. Or, the second shift may be made into 

 paper or earthen pots, berry baskets, or other suitable devices. 



A transplanting board is an exceedingly useful device. It is 

 made of inch boards large enough to cover the flats to be em- 

 ployed. Half -inch holes are bored in check rows two inches apart, 



