CHAPTER V. HOW^ TO START 

 A GARDEN 



HAVING selected and purchased — the 

 sooner the better — the seeds of pre- 

 ferred flowers and vegetables, the 

 next step to take, long before the 

 ground can be tilled, is to secure a 

 supply of necessary garden tools. 

 Many kinds of these are pictured in the last 

 pages of the seed catalogues and all of them 

 have their uses. Four of them are indispensable. 

 Without a spade, a hoe, a trowel, a rake, gar- 

 dening is impossible. But there are at least 

 four more implements which I should be very 

 sorry not to have. They are : 



1. A three (not four) pronged hand fork like 

 this. This is often more handy and helpful than 

 a trowel, but not in trans- 

 planting, for which, by the ^ .^ 



way, a narrow trowel is often 



more useful than the ordinary Gem Hand Fork 



kind. A large spading fork is 



often preferable to a spade or shovel. Buy one. 

 2. Very useful and labor saving is a five- 

 pronged potato hook 

 (prong hoe), not only for 

 digging potatoes, but also 

 as a substitute for spade, 

 spading fork, or shovel. 

 If your garden approxi- 

 Prong Hoc or Potato Hook matcs half an acre, much 



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