EQUIPMENT 103 



position by being nailed to short posts, two inches square and 

 eighteen inches long, driven into the ground until flush with the 

 upper edge of the planks. The cost of this edging is about sixpence 

 per yard, or say, one pound for a single main path. It will save 

 a great deal of trouble in keeping the path clean and the garden 

 neat. 



The equipment required for a school garden will vary with 

 the age of the pupils, and with the variety of the work done in it. 

 In elementary school gardens each boy should have a set of 

 tools, consisting of a spade, fork, rake, Dutch hoe and trowel. 

 Each tool of each set should have a number burnt or cut on it 

 for purposes of identification. The cost of each set will be about 

 twelve shillings. In addition, for general use there should be 

 provided two or three draw hoes, a barrow, two watering cans, 

 three garden lines, a thermometer, wooden labels, flower-pots, 

 and bast, costing altogether about two pounds. If possible a 

 spraying machine costing thirty shillings, and a budding knife, 

 should also be provided. Some kind of storehouse must be 

 provided for the tools and materials used in the garden, and for 

 this purpose a wooden shed, ten feet long, five feet wide, and six 

 feet to the eaves, is sufficient. A portable shed of this size can 

 be bought for about two pounds. For more advanced work, 

 however, it is a great convenience if a larger shed, to be used as 

 a potting and store shed as well as a toolhouse, can be provided. 

 A shed measuring sixteen feet by ten feet, and provided on one 

 side with a bench two feet wide, and a shelf six inches wide, 

 will cost about five pounds. If, as is strongly recommended, 

 a hot-bed is used for raising seedlings and striking cuttings, a 

 frame with one or two lights will be required, and this will cost 

 from one to two pounds, according to size. 



Besides the equipment above mentioned, certain materials 

 will be required for carrying out a good course of work in 

 gardening. Chief of these are manure (farmyard and artificial), 

 sand, leaf-mould, leaves, and loam. The best farmyard manure 

 is that of the horse. This should, if possible, be obtained in the 

 green (that is unfermented) state, when it consists of unde- 

 composed straw saturated with urine from the animals and 

 mixed with their dung. In this state it can be used for making 



