A very cheap and good transplanter for removing plants from one place to another can be made as follows : Let the tin-smith take a sheet of "two-cross" tin 14x20, cut in two pieces lengthwise, making one piece 6¾ in., the other 7¼ in., both being 20 in. long. Pass through the rollers and turn them up like pieces of stove pipe. Then wire one end of each with good heavy wire. Solder the narrow piece with a good lap seam, and fasten a handle on each side of the wired end, similar to the handles of a milk pan. Then solder the other piece with a lap seam, just small enough to go into the piece with the handles, and slide easily. Then turn in the edge of it that is not wired 3/8 in. at right angles to the sides.

To use, take the outside cylinder, press it down in the place where you wish to remove the plant; give it a twist or turn to break the soil loose at the bottom, draw up the dirt and cylinder and shake out. Then put the cylinder together, and place over the plant to be removed. Press down the outside cylinder to the same depth as the other hole made ; that will leave the inside cylinder resting on top of the ground, and above the outside cylinder. Then twist or turn the outside to break the soil at the bottom. Place the fingers in the handles, and the thumbs on top of inside cylinder, hold it to its place and draw up the outside cylinder; the inside cylinder prevents the soil from coming up with it. Remove your cylinder from the plant, and give the ground a slight watering. - S. B. Conover.