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be passed down beside the plants until 
well below the bottom of the roots and 
a block of the plants lifted together. 
These should not be separated except as 
they are placed in the ground, unless the 
weather is exceptionally favorable for 
transplanting. If very hot and muggy it 
will aid materially to place the roots in 
a basin of water, but unless this is neces- 
sary, they will handle better and adjust 
themselves better in the ground if taken 
just as they come from the soil. 
The distance apart at which the plants 
shall stand will depend upon their nature, 
but it will be better to err on the side of 
too much room than too little. In plant- 
ing vegetables, all catalogues give the 
distance apart at which the various sorts 
should stand and this should be respected. 
The lines of planting and the points 
at which the plants should be set should 
be marked out before beginning work, 
and everything being on hand—watering 
pot or pail and dipper, trowel and in case 
of flower beds, a board on which to stand or 
kneel when setting plants near the center of 
the bed—the work will go forward rapidly. 
In setting the plant, a hole should be 
made with trowel or dipper of sufficient 
size to. accommodate the roots of the 
plant, and when this is placed with the 
roots in as natural a position as possible, 
a part of the earth should be replaced in 
the hole and pressed gently about the 
roots; the hole should then be filled with 
water and when this has settled the re- 
maining earth should be filled in and the 
whole smoothed off with the trowel, leav- 
ing a dry, dust mulch about the plants. 
As all this involves some little outlay of 
time, it will simplify matters to make all 
the holes before setting the plants, then 
go along the rows, dropping a plant into 
each hole and drawing the earth about it. 
The holes should then be filled with 
water, which will have settled in those 
first filled by the time the end of the row 
has been reached, when the finishing 
work of filling up and dusting off may be 
pushed rapidly to a finish. In this way 
a good many hundreds of plants may be 
put into the ground in first class shape 
in a morning’s work; better still, if the 
work has been properly done the plants 
will all live. When the planting is com- 
pleted, the rows should be looked over 
to see that no moisture has drawn to the 
surface as the preservation of the dust 
mulch is the secret of successful trans- 
planting. Where this has occurred, the 
trowel must be brought into use again to 
restore the dry soil, bringing some from 
another part of the bed if necessary. Of 
course, if plants are set during a rain, 
the dust mulch is out of the question and 
is not needed, but as soon as the weather 
clears the planting should be gone over 
with hoe or trowel and a dust mulch 
established; the plants will need no fur- 
ther care then for a few days, or until 
they have become established and culti- 
vation is in order, but that is another story. 
Do not protect newly-set plants in any 
way and do not water for three or four 
days at least; [ have known people to set 
out plants in the most scientific and 
workman-like manner—dust mulch and 
all complete and then, at the edge of eve- 
ning, go around with a watering pot and 
soak each plant with water, which the 
first rays of the morning sun would pro- 
ceed to soak up together with moisture 
placed in the hole for the substance of 
the plant during its period of adjustment 
to the new conditions in which it found 
itself ; a few hours later a lot of wilted and 
dying plants prone on the ground attested 
the outrage inflicted upon them. 
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