THE GARDEN 



Another useful little tool is a weeding-hook, 

 or claw. It has fine, curved fingers which take 

 hold of weeds and uproot them as you draw it 

 through the soil. These fingers also stir the 

 soil to the depth of an inch or more if you 

 apply a little extra force to the tool, thus 

 answering the double purpose of weeding and 

 pulverizing at one operation. With such a 

 weeder you can accomplish more in an hour 

 than you can in half a day when you pull weeds 

 by hand. 



A sprayer is needed in every garden. Not 

 the small hand-sprayer made of tin, but a small 

 force-pump to which a hose is attached, having 

 a nozzle which enables you to graduate the 

 stream of water to any desired degree of fine- 

 ness. This pump is portable, is made of brass, 

 and will last for a lifetime if properly cared 

 for. Water can be thrown twenty or thirty 

 feet with it in a solid stream. A turn of the 

 nozzle-regulator will instantly change the 

 stream to a fine spray. The value of this 

 pump is most fully realized when insecticides 

 are used, but its usefulness is by no means con- 

 fined to gardening operations. Use it on the 

 house-plants on the veranda daily and they will 

 never be troubled by red spider or disfigured 



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