Chapter TWENTY-THREE 



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TOOLS: There is always a tendency 

 among beginners to overload with the 

 paraphernalia of their calling, what- 

 ever it may be. When the first en- 

 thusiasm passes, and one becomes a 

 careful and successful worker, all that is superfluous 

 is gradually dropped, and one realises that it is brains 

 and not tools that make the successful gardener. A 

 hotbed, a cold-frame or two, a work-table in some 

 convenient place, a trowel, wheel-barrow, spade, 

 pitchfork, rake, hoe, a few yards of stout cord, a 

 hatchet to sharpen stakes, a watering-pot, rubber 

 sprinkler, rubber gloves, a good supply of pots and 

 wire-netting, and a couple of good mole-traps cover 

 the real necessaries. Incidentals, such as wire-sieves, 

 lath-screens, trellises, and the like, may be made as 

 they are required. 



One should not have more tools than can be kept 

 in good working order. 



An excellent place for Begonias, Gloxinias, and 

 other shade-loving plants is made by fitting a wide 



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