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GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



ever see a woman begin to scrub in the 

 middle of the floor, or at the door of exit ? 

 Very well : dojit do that : you must not 

 walk over the ground you have dug. 



Begin at one end, — and open a narrow 

 furrow quite across the bed, taking out the 

 earth and conveying it quite to the other 

 end. If the bed is but small, a strong, skill- 

 ed hand can easily throw the earth there at 

 once, spadeful by spadeful; but it needs 

 strength ; and so Mrs. Loudon says, that a 

 light wheelbarrow is the best means of trans- 

 port. And I should say that too ; but I tried 

 so long in vain to get a light v/heelbarrow 

 myself, that I am afraid to call it an essen- 

 tial. A basket will do instead. 



ladies' wheelbakrow. 



The furrow once opened, dig across the 

 line of earth that comes next to it, taking 



