. The book of the garden. Gardening. 26. 1 Figs. 27. PLANTING-TROWELS. check to their growth as pos- sible, the plant- ing - trowels, figs. 27 and 28, should be used. The dibber is too well known dibbers. to require any description; the broken handle of an old spade forms one of the best kinds, which only requires to be cut to the length of 10 or 12 inches, and to have its perforating end bluntly pointed. The trowel is a more perfect implement, and is employed in the removal of plants of a larger size than can be safely planted by the dibber. In using either the pointed or semicircu- lar trowe
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 26. 1 Figs. 27. PLANTING-TROWELS. check to their growth as pos- sible, the plant- ing - trowels, figs. 27 and 28, should be used. The dibber is too well known dibbers. to require any description; the broken handle of an old spade forms one of the best kinds, which only requires to be cut to the length of 10 or 12 inches, and to have its perforating end bluntly pointed. The trowel is a more perfect implement, and is employed in the removal of plants of a larger size than can be safely planted by the dibber. In using either the pointed or semicircu- lar trowel, figs. 28 and 29, the young plants may be taken up with a consi- derable ball of earth at- tached to the roots, while they suffer no in- jury by the process. A more perfect mode of transplanting by the use of the trowel is that by taking two of these, one in each hand, thrust- ing them down on opposite sides of the plant, at the same time drawing the handles slightly outwards; the faces of the trowels are thus made to collapse so much as to press the soil about the roots, and hence enable the operator to take the plant, with ball entire, from the seed-bed to its ultimate destination, and to place it in its new abode without the least check to its growth. As we shall have to refer frequently to transplanting, we may as well here show the construction of transplants, which have been long in use, for transplanting such crops as the Brassicse, at present under our consideration. Fig. 29 is called Saul's Trans- planter, because that intelligent horticulturist brought it into public notice many years ago in the pages of the " Gardeners' ; It appears, however, to be an improvement on a similar implement invented by the Eev. Mr Thornhill, about 1820, and used by him for trans- planting turnips. It may be thus described : The blades are opened by pressing the lever a towards the handle, when they saul's open outwards, and in this transplanter, state are thrust in th
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