42 GARDEN STEPS 



ing to style and materials used in making it. It is 

 used in spraying trees, potatoes, cucumber vines, 

 and other plants which cover a good deal of 

 surface. 



Besides this pump, get a small hand sprayer cost- 

 ing fifty cents, made from galvanized iron. This 

 may be kept loaded with arsenate of lead solution, 

 as it is needed almost daily to spray the small squash 

 vines and plants of like nature, which are often 

 attacked by beetles as soon as they appear above 

 the surface of the ground. 



"Watering Pot and Hose. — If you can have run- 

 ning water and enough hose to cover the space pro- 

 vided for the kitchen garden, use it by all means. 

 The plants there depend for their best qualities 

 upon rapid growth, and rapid growth depends upon 

 water, plenty of it. If the running water and hose are 

 not possible, a watering pot is needed. A pot 

 made of galvanized iron, and holding about two gal- 

 lons, is the best. 



Iron Bar. — Many people try to do garden work 

 without the help of a bar, but if they realized the 

 great advantage gained by the use of such a tool, 

 they would not be without it. Bars vary in price 

 according to their weight. Even a piece of old 

 water pipe, five feet long or so, may be made of 

 much use. Heat the end in the fire until it is red- 

 hot. Then pound it into a point on a large flat 

 stone. For setting the many stakes which are 



