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Show TOOLS FOR A GARDEN Implements Are Demanded for Proper Cultivation. Old-Fashioned Hoe and Rake Will Not Supply All the Needs of the Up-to-Date Gardener- Some Good Ones Are Illustrated. (Bv C. S. MILLER.) The growing of vegetables and fruit has become so important that improved im-proved tools are now demanded for proper cultivation. In order to get the very best results cultivation must be carried to the limit and the old-fashioned old-fashioned hoe and rake will not supply sup-ply all the needs of the up-to-date gardener. Those shown in the accompanying picture are all extremely useful, and as they cost but a trifle nobody who expects to do the best work in a garden gar-den can afford to be without them. No. 1 is the hoe, and is remarkable for the great number of uses to which it can be put in both field and garden. No. 2 is especially useful for covering cover-ing seeds and for heavy weeding. No. 3 is a combined hoe and rake and enables the operator to do either hoeing or raking without laying aside one tool and taking up the other. No. 4 is a hand weeder to scratch weeds out of flower beds and pots. No. 5 is one of the most useful tools that can be used. It is extremely Improved Garden Tools. useful, not only in spading, but In cutting out weeds close to large plants and trimming walks and beds. No. 6 is a handy litttle tool about the flower bed. You can transplant, pulverize and mix earth preparatory to planting, loosen the earth about plants and do numerous other things with it. |
