420 Other Management of the YegetaNe-Gardeii 



by hand, it is cnstomarv to have a hoy carry the plants in 

 a covered basket or box, and to drop them Just ahead of 

 the planters. One boy ordinarily drops for two rows of 

 planters. The boy should not drop 

 faster than the plants are required 

 by the workmen. 



Set the plants deep. Gardeners 

 usually prefer to set them to the seed- 

 2:5. Dibbers, flat and Icaf, cveu though they were an inch 

 coimdricai. higher in the original seed-bed. 



This deep planting holds the plants in position and places 

 the roots in the moist and cool earth. Press the earth 

 firmly about the roots and the crown. 



The best tool for opening -the land is a dibber (Fig. 

 225), which makes a hole without removing the earth. In 

 the working hand hold the dibber : 

 in the other hand hold the plant; the 

 plant is lowered into the hole made 

 by the dibber, and both hands are then 

 pressed tightly about the plant as the 

 earth is closed against it. Sometimes 

 the dibber is thrust alongside the 

 plant and the hole filled by pressing 

 the earth against it (Fig. 226). 



Another dibber-like tool is the 

 " scandigie/^ shown in Fig. 227, 226. The dibber and 

 adapted from Circ. 160, Calif. Exp. *° '^^^ 



Sta., on lettuce, said to be "used for transplanting." 



If the plants are rather large, and particularly if they 

 have not been transplanted before, it is well to cut off a 

 part of the foliage to hinder evaporation. One-half or one- 



