The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



tivating between the rows, then the paths are 

 left clear and untrodden and -the garden is a de- 

 light to look upon. A basket should be carried 

 along the rows to drop the plants removed so 

 that they may be out of the way when ready 

 to run the cultivator. Nearly all plants which 

 require thinning may be used in setting out fresh 

 rows of vegetables and where there are vacant 

 places in the rows the spaces may be filled up with 

 plants removed from too crowded areas. 



The first weeds to appear in the spring are the 

 chickweed and the malice ^ that has remained over 

 from the previous year, being a perennial and a 

 very hardy and persistent one; these two are 

 ploughed under and give little or no trouble if 

 the work has been well done. The new crop does 

 not appear until late in the season — usually in 

 July. Purslaine comes along in June and soon 

 after appears that particular pest of the garden 

 — red root. All these are very easily eradicated 

 when small but the red root is an exceedingly 



1 Common name "malice" from its bad reputation; properly, 

 mallow (malva rotv.ndifoUa) . 



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