Show I I L I n Your To U r LI w n Ls SEEN IN THE SHOPS The rho other da day I went shopping for tor spray material with which to rout mealy bugs on various of my cacti and I was delighted with the number of nice new things the nursery nursery nursery nur nur- sery stores are displaying for the I use of home gardeners One item which would be hailed with joy by almost anyone and more especially a woman amateur was a colorful box containing a acard acard acard card index for the seeds planted Inthe in inthe the tho garden There were the correct divisions into annual biennial and so on and along with the blank cards on which the gardener gardener gardener gar gar- dener was to keep account of when seeds were vei planted where and all about them was a list of the more commonly grown things with Interesting in interesting In- In items ms about their history and so on Garden gloves were much in evIdence evidence evi evI- dence too Now I am one of those gardeners who cant can't garden in Iii gloves but just the same I conscientiously con con- buy a pair e each ch spring wear them once once- and then permit I the puppy to carry them off and worry them You my reader are areno areno no doubt more sensible than this and protect your hands whenever you work outside These gloves which Intrigued meso me rue meso so much were made from rom lambskin a creamy white e color very soft am and pliable and yet strong What Ismore is ismore ismore more they were was washable able and could be washed on tho the hands hands hands-a a very easy process Directions for or laundering laun laun- daring dering them were attached to the c cellophane package in which each pair was Wa carefully cal secluded Some of the gloves glove had gauntlets o of bright creto cretonne lne others had cuffs of the lambskin Among the new V e garden tools a ahue aline aline line hue of trowels was especially at at- They were of ot very heavy steel with handle all aU one with the body and they were vere long and narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row instead of being the regulation width This sort of tr trowel is generally generally generally gen gen- used for bulb planting but i ihas it has has' excellent uses in spring when seedlings are to o bo be transplanted to their permanent places in the gar gar- den Such a trowel makes a hole just the right size to contain th the seedling A line lino of very colorful and amusing amusing amusing amus amus- ing bits of pottery in which cacti could be planted was wal in one store tore showing the greatly growing vogue for these old ld spiny plants There was a donkey with a pair of panniers panniers panniers pan pan- slung across his back If It each of the panniers had been pl planted plant plant- nt- nt ed with two or three little succulents succulents succulents lents or cacti one could easily vision the traditional burro of the west trudging along with his baskets loaded with plants for market Then there thero was an assortment of ot animals made hollow with cavities cay cay- cay cay- lUes in the back for filling mUng with earth and plants plants frogs frogs dogs ele elephants dc- dc phan and so on It was difficult to say whether the plain white ones or the brightly painted ones would be more more attractive when planted In filling these bits bits' of pottery with the desert plants one should always see that sand or gravel Is used at least half halt way u up Uk the cavity before the plants arc are added In order to furnish drainage since no drainage drainage drainage drain drain- age hole is made in the vessel Then the plants should only be very sparingly watered once they have become established |