Dispenser for seedlings

A dispenser (10) including:

• a housing (12);
• a first hub (28);
• a first string of tubes (16) for containing items to be dispensed, which first string of tubes (16) are:
• open at a first axial end;
• hingedly connected to each other;
• and
• wound about the first hub (28);
• a first guide (20) disposed within the housing (12) and spaced from the first hub (28), against which first guide (20) the first string of tubes (16) make contact as the first string of tubes (16) unwinds from the first hub (28);
• and
• a first chute (22) associated with the first guide (20) into which first chute (22) items contained within the first string of tubes (16) are dispensed via the first axial end of the first string of tubes (16), as the first string of tubes (16) pass the first guide (20),
• characterised in that the dispenser further includes:
• a second hub (18) about which the first string of tubes (16) unwound from the first hub (28) may be wound;
• and
• a first connector (40) for securing a first terminal end of the first string of tubes (16) to the second hub (18).