SPRING 



Rocks - (if they are in the wrong place) 

 should be blasted out and stones and stumps 

 removed. The sod should be turned up 

 with a plow, and then carted off and piled 

 in some out-of-the-way place to decompose. 

 It will then be ready to be returned to the 

 garden and made useful as a valuable fer- 

 tilizer, or in planting trees, shrubs and 

 Rhododendrons, for which it is especially 

 valuable if chopped up and put in the bot- 

 tom of the hole made to receive the roots. 

 The ground should then be carefully lev- 

 elled, thickly covered with manure, plowed 

 deeply and harrowed thoroughly three or 

 four times; if the garden is not too large, 

 it should be spaded over as well. It is then 

 in condition for laying out the beds and 

 walks. For this work there should be a 

 large quantity of garden cord, a long meas- 

 uring tape, many pointed stakes, and a 

 wooden mallet. The center of the plot is 

 first marked with a stake, and from this 

 point the other measurements are taken off 

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