46 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



Another tool which will be needed in spring and 

 fall is a good garden line and reel. This may be 

 easily manufactured at home or may be bought at a 

 reasonable price of any dealer in garden supplies. 

 For laying out round beds and similar work a garden 

 pole, instead of line, will be useful. This is easily 

 made by drilling holes six inches and a foot apart in 

 a strip of inch lumber about two inches wide. At one 

 end there should be a larger hole into which a stout, 

 pointed stake with a shoulder is inserted so as to turn 

 easily and the top of the stake should have a peg 

 or nail in the end to prevent its dropping out. A 

 sharp, somewhat slimmer peg or several of these, 

 should be provided to fit the smaller holes which are 

 used for measuring. By using a tool like this it is 

 possible to mark off a garden like the circular rose 

 garden in Plan D or Plan C at almost one operation, 

 by using a long enough pole and from four to five 

 pegs. 



A carrier in which plants may be transferred from 

 the sandbox to the garden or house will be found of 

 use and a very convenient one may be made by taking 

 a straight piece of board about twelve inches wide 

 and eighteen or twenty long and nailing strips of 

 wood about three inches wide along the sides and 

 fitting a handle, which may be improvised from a 

 barrel hoop soaked until pliable and nailed exactly 

 in the middle of each side of the board so that it 



