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Show Old Gardener - - - - - - - Sciyv 1 WOMEN who work In their own gardens and And the ordinary or-dinary steel rake heavy and cumbersome cum-bersome will be delighted with bamboo bam-boo rakes, which come from Japan and are very cheap. Metal rakes now being made in this country have the same pattern and are almost al-most as light. These rakes are especially useful when cleaning up leaves and grass clippings, but can also be used In garden work of a light nature. They can be handled In much the same way as a broom, and with much less effort than Is required to manipulate rakes of the old-fashioned type. These rakes do not look very strong, but will stand a remarkable amount of hard service. Naturally the metal rakes are somewhat more durable than, the Japanese product but the lat- ter Is cheap and surprisingly satisfactory. sat-isfactory. (Copyright.) WNU Servlc. |