FACING PAGE 



Manner of pruning shrub-branches 42 



Pruned Geranium plant 43 



Combination of good and bad pruning 44 



The permanent hotbed 45 



Hotbed soil 45 



The garden beginner's work-bench 48 



Marking off planting rows 49 



Knapsack pump-sprayer 56 



Spraying outfit 56 



Hollyhocks 57 



Barrel pump-sprayer 60 



The gardener's friends 61 



Making the back-yard attractive 64 



A well-kept border of annuals 65 



A neat vegetable garden 71 



An old-fashioned garden 80 



Beautifying the walls 81 



Everyone may have such a garden as this 81 



DRAWINGS 



PAOB 



Cross section of hotbed 46 



Hotbed frame 47 



Usual form of coldframe 50 



Coldframe with double sash 51 



Types of chewing insects 55 



Types of sucking insects 55 



Bucket hand-sprayer 57 



Knapsack hand-sprayer 57 



