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Show TOOLS THE BUSY GARDENER NEEDS Hoe, Rake and Spade, the Combination Com-bination Soil Tillers Find Absolutely Abso-lutely Necessary. WHEEL HOE IS LABOR SAVER Little Implement Suitable for Small or Large Garden; Trowels Are Handy; Spraying Outfits Are Essential. With the first warm days of spring sounding the earth call, ther is a hasty scurrying around for the tools of the gardening cult. A gardener can get along fairly well with four, a spade or spading fork, a hoe, a rake, and a trowel. It Is even possible to get along without the last, but who wants to? The art of gardening Is reaching such a point of special development that there are tools for almost everything every-thing and the wise gardener by a careful care-ful selection will ease his work as much as possible by securing appropriate appro-priate working Implements. The greatest labor saver for gardens of any extent is a little wheel hoe. This saves many a headache, does tha work thoroughly, and has appliances for various purposes which are Interchangeable Inter-changeable from a little plow share to cultivators of various kinds. It can be used In the smallest garden. There are numerous hoes of various types and designed for different purposes. pur-poses. The pointed hoe for making rows is a convenient tool. The hoe with rake teeth on the back of the blade Is one of the very handiest all-sround all-sround garden tools for light work there is. It Is particularly well adapted adapt-ed for women gardeners. Three toothed cultivator hoes do a fine job of stirring stir-ring the soil. Scuffle or shove hoes aa they are sometimes called that can b pushed instead of pulled, permit hoe-lug hoe-lug rows which ace too close to walk between conveniently. 'Trowels of various shapes to suit various plants are now on the market, stiff, sharply angled small bladed trowels trow-els are ideal for splitting off pieces from perennials which have grown so large they need dividing for their best growth. They are fine to set under a recalcitrant carrot or parsnip whose leaves are so tender they part company com-pany from the root, leaving it In the ground. Long bladed trowels are especially adapted for digging holes for gladiolus or other bulbs In the spring and tu- ' i" ? ; l?' ' Necessary Garden Toels. lips and fall bulbs later In the season and equally useful In digging them up. There are little hand rakes which are just the thing' for hand cultivation among plants which need special care and the earth kept stirred. Sprinkling cans and sprays must be added to every well regulated garden outfit, especially a spray. While looking over spraying outfits get In a supply of poison for the pests that devour and for the fungus that blights. The seedsman will tell you what to get. liordeaux mixture for fungus pests, parts green or some other arsenical poison' for those that oat the leaves, and a tobacco poison of some kind for plant lice are standard. Often they can be bought In combination. National Gard?n P.ureau. |
