Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — GARDENING TOOLS FOR THE AMATEUR [ARTICLE]

GARDENING TOOLS FOR THE AMATEUR

Proper Implements Are Real Necessity and Aid to Flower Raisers. A S SOON as the lilac buds begin to burst into leaves the amateur gardener knows that the ground >s sufficiently free from frost to admit of Its being dug up and raked and prepared for the tiny seeds which, when they grow into plants and burst into bloom in the summer, will be a source of joy to her. The woman to whom flower raising is an untested pleasure would do well to first see that she had a proper stock of gardening implements, and she should keep these in a special closet or devote one corner of the cellar or shed to them. A couple of trowels of different sixes are absolute necessities, as are a rake and a light-weight spade. If she Is going to plant a kitchen garden a hoe should be added to these. l A supply of strong, slender stakes, from a foot and a half to three feet, should be laid in and some strong cord, when tacks and a hammer are needed, which they will be in the case of planting sweet peas or other running plants, these may be borrowed from the kitchen. Another useful Implement is a pair of stout shears, and, moat important of all, when the summer sun thirstily drinks up all the moisture in the ground, is the watering pot, which should be equipped with several noszles, with varying sixes of perforations. And a pair Qf gardening gloves might be added to these other tools. But it is most Important that these should be religiously kept In their own corner, and as soon as one day's gardening baa been finished the earth dinging to them scraped off and each implement put in Its proper place.