A WOMAN^S HARDY GARDEN 



SO did the leaves ; they fell off together. 

 There was nothing left but the forlorn stems 

 and branches, looking like some freak of the 

 vegetable kingdom. 



TOOL-ROOM 



It is of the greatest importance to have 

 a tool -room or closet according to the size 

 of the place, and to require all implements 

 to be kept there when not in actual use. 

 There should be shelves across one end or 

 side, where shears, trowels, garden cord, clip- 

 pers, watering-cans, mallet, various mixtures 

 for spraying, oil -cans, keys for turning on 

 the water, twine and all the smaller things 

 one uses, may be found at a moment's notice. 

 Garden sticks painted green, in three sizes, 

 three and a half and four feet long, and 

 five -eighths of an inch in diameter, and 

 thicker ones an inch in diameter for Dah- 

 lias, should be kept on hand in barrels. 

 They can be bought of lumber - dealers 

 in New York, where they are known as 



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