BOOK OF THE HOME GARDEN 



work, a plow, or a hoe, or cultivator teeth or rakes. 

 These are to be used between the rows of plants. 

 Push them in front of you, a step at a time if it 

 is hard work, but if it is easy for you it can be 

 pushed straight ahead while you walk slowly. As a 

 rule we give a push and a step, a push and a step, 

 always pulling back a little bit after each step. 

 It is wonderful how quickly you can cover a lot of 

 space with one of these and it is wonderful how 

 using the cultivator every day will make your 

 garden grow. 



The large claw on a long handle is an extremely 

 good cultivator and will help stir the ground well 

 and quickly. It is a good thing in a big garden 

 where you have not a wheel cultivator. 



These tools are all splendid to possess but there 

 are ten tools that none of us can do without and 

 those are our ten fingers. If you are afraid to put 

 your fingers into good old Mother Earth, if you 

 don't like to take some of your garden soil into your 

 hand and feel it and think about it, and watch it im- 

 prove from year to year, growing darker and darker 

 in color, and looser in texture, and richer in quality, 

 then you don't want to be a gardener any more than 

 you would want to be a dressmaker if you hated 

 sewing or an engineer if you hated mechanics. 



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