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GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



considering- ; and if the digging waits a lit- 

 tle, the hardy perennials will have their 

 heads above ground, and so miss the chance 

 of being decapitated by your spade ; and 

 many self-sown annuals will spring up, 

 ready to your hand for transplanting. And 

 besides, — a matter of much importance 

 where you do your own digging, — the la- 

 bour will be not half, if the ground is dry 

 and crumbly and finable : if it zvorks well, as 

 experts say. 



Do you do your own digging ? — and do 

 you know how? It is such pretty work! — 

 and by no means so tiresome as hoeing. 



SET OF ladies' GARDEN TOOLS. 



A light spade is the first essential, — sharp 

 and bright and clean from all soil of the last 



