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GARDENING FOE THE SOUTH. 



Drill Bakes or Markers are made of wood, and the 

 teeth placed at a greater or less distance for sowing differ- 

 ent seeds. In using, the first drill is guided by stretching 



a line, and afterwards 

 the first tooth is kept 

 in the drill last made 

 to guide, and thus all 

 the rows in a long 

 bed can be made per- 

 fectly parallel. Sev- 

 eral different sizes are 

 Fig. 16.— double marker. required. That re- 



presented in figure 16 has a set of teeth on each side, at 

 nine and twelve inches apart. By using every mark, or 

 every other one, four different distances may be marked 

 with this. 



The Dibble is very convenient in transplanting cab- 

 bages and all those plants that readily 

 succeed when moved. It is usually made 

 of a stick of hard wood about fifteen 

 inches long ; the point should be a little 

 blunt. The hole is made with the imple- 

 ment, the plant is put in, and set by again 

 inserting the dibble so as to press the 

 earth against the roots. Figure 17 shows 

 two forms. 



The Trowel is an indispensable 

 implement for removing flowers and other 

 tender plants, as they can be taken up with a ball of earth 

 attached, without injury or mutilation to the roots. It 

 should always be of polished steel. 

 The blade is shaped like the curved 

 Tig. 18.— trowel portion of the section of a cone, as 

 in figure 18. 



The Transplanter consists of the two parts, a and b, 

 fig. 19, hinged together on one side at c. When a plant is 



DIBBLES. 



